Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

January 14, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Large Texas-based firms and out-of-state firms with large Texas operations paid bonuses roughly equivalent to what they paid associates for 2006 work or a little more than the previous year, according to interviews with lawyers at the firms. Stanley Mayo, managing partner of the Dallas office of Patton Boggs, says bonuses for his firm's associates will range from about $10,000 to as much as $70,000.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

July 30, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Muslim investors are not allowed to earn interest on their money or pay interest. So working on deals involving Muslims isn't the easiest practice area. Nevertheless, Bracewell & Patterson finance and real estate partner Alfred G. Al Kyle is developing a niche practice of representing banks in deals financed in part with money from Muslim investors.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

March 07, 2001 | Law.com

A startup in Austin is getting off the ground with tutelage from a group of retired general counsel and big-firm lawyers with decades of experience among them. The lawyers recently headed legal departments at Texas corporations Exxon Corp., Shell Oil Co. and Electronic Data Systems Corp., and companies outside Texas including Schlumberger Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Du Pont de Nemours & Co.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

March 24, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

On the same day President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that all but assured the United States would go to war with Iraq, the president refused to commute the death sentence of a decorated soldier who claimed his exposure to nerve gas during the 1990-1991 Gulf War made him uncontrollably violent.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

August 01, 2006 | National Law Journal

For more than four years, SOX has been a lucrative business source for lawyers who need to help their clients comply with the post-Enron law's intricacies. Now, there's a new and growing font of corporate governance work: stock option backdating inquiries. Baker Botts partner Michael Gold says it's become "a rather large source of work for many lawyers," and one that cuts across many practice areas. But will the controversy develop into a long-running governance problem?

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 23, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

The organizer of the Christian Trial Lawyers Association, envisioned as a do-good group of trial lawyers with Christian values, says the group would be the first of its kind in the country.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

February 14, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

A number of Texas firms got new leaders over the past year, and while the firms seek a seamless transition of power and responsibility, they follow different routes to move from one managing partner to the next. Kevin Sullivan succeeded Denis Braham as chairman and CEO of Winstead.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

February 01, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Large Texas firms made fewer new partners this year but more of them are women and more are minorities than in years past. Considering the uncertainty in the nation`s economy and the turmoil in Texas` bedrock energy industry in the wake of Enron Corp.`s bankruptcy, it`s probably not too surprising large Texas firms made fewer new partners as a whole in 2002 than in 2001. The decline isn`t large, about 9.8 percent, but it`s the second year in a row for the trend line to head down instead of up.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

8 minute read

December 13, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Twists and turns were the norm at a closely watched hearing on the constitutionality of the Texas death penalty statute, which began Dec. 6 in 177th District Judge Kevin Fine's Harris County courtroom. Not only did the Harris County District Attorney's Office refuse to participate in the pretrial evidentiary hearing, but after only two days of testimony presented by attorneys representing John E. Green, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals temporarily halted proceedings.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

April 19, 1999 | Law.com

Texas plaintiffs' lawyers will have to wait a few more weeks for a benchmark verdict in a "fen-phen" suit. Moore, v. American Home Products Corp., the nation's first trial over the diet drug, settled on April 8 after four days of testimony. Another case goes to trial next month in Fort Worth, Texas. Terms of the Moore settlement, the sixth such suit to settle nationwide, are confidential. Reports put the dollar value at around $500,000.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read