Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 30, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas-based Hughes & Luce is in merger negotiations with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, with plans calling for a possible combination of the firms by the end of the year.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

March 04, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Deal toys, those colorful statuettes that commemorate the closing of an acquisition or a financing, are commonplace in executive offices at Houston`s Kinder Morgan Inc.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

9 minute read

June 02, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Insurance companies have paid more than $6 million over the past year to lawyers representing jailed Houston businessman R. Allen Stanford, but he told a federal judge on May 25 he's not sure what all of them did for him and he has no idea what it all cost.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

April 19, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

The really big Enron Corp. show starts next January when the criminal trial of former high-ranking executives Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and Richard Causey kicks off in federal court in Houston. But before that event, the Enron Task Force gets another shot at trying to convict lower-level employees of criminal conduct linked to the spectacular and tragic demise of the former Houston energy giant.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

May 03, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

John M. O'Quinn persuaded a jury in Beaumont to return a record $1 billion verdict in a fen-phen suit on April 27, but the Houston plaintiffs lawyer now faces the harder task of convincing the trial judge and appeals courts that the jury finding busts a statutory cap on punitive damages.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

March 15, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

August 19, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A jury in Angleton Friday returned a verdict awarding a total of $253.4 million in damages to the plaintiffs in the nation's first civil Vioxx trial against drug maker Merck & Co. Inc.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

March 28, 2011 | Law.com

Bellaire lawyer Michael W. Weston and his firm, Weston & Associates, have filed a defamation suit alleging a "false review" about the firm was posted online on Citysearch.com. They seek more than $1.25 million in damages. Weston says he found the review on March 3 when he typed his firm's name into Google.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

October 03, 2000 | Law.com

Two recent appellate rulings in Texas cloud the legitimacy of arbitration clauses in fee contracts between lawyers and clients. One decision forced arbitration of a legal malpractice suit, while another ruled such claims are excluded from the Texas Arbitration Act. Until the issue is decided by the Texas Supreme Court, many lawyers are leaving arbitration clauses out of their fee contracts.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

May 06, 2002 | National Law Journal

The challenges, and opportunities, faced by Arther Andersen defense counsel Rusty Hardin.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read