Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

December 29, 2003 | Law.com

It's been mostly business as usual this year for Joe Dilg, managing partner of Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, and formerly the lead V&E lawyer on the Enron Corp. account. But at the end of this year, one thing will be different for Dilg and the 798-lawyer firm: For the first time in more than a decade, V&E's revenues for the year will decline. And with revenues dipping, the firm with a reputation for invincibility is starting to show it, too, is vulnerable.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

December 17, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Edward O. Coultas (pictured), managing partner of the 149-lawyer Hughes & Luce, says his firm�s partners voted nearly unanimously in favor of the deal. Coultas says the combination with K&L Gates is a win-win for his firm, because the firm and its clients will have access to a global network of lawyers at K&L Gates.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A few years ago, Steven R. Selsberg, a partner in Mayer Brown in Houston, thought he would make a smoking-hot career out of tobacco litigation, but today Selsberg is the go-to litigation lawyer in the United States for the business empire of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire who may be the richest man in the world.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

May 24, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

David Duncan may be the single most important government witness in Arthur Andersen`s obstruction of justice trial, but since he stepped off the stand on May 17, prosecutors have been shoring up their case with documents, e-mails, a videotape and testimony about Andersen partners who refuse to testify. But some of the strongest evidence came on May 22 when the head of Andersen`s fraud investigations group, David Stulb, testified that he had to stop Duncan from throwing away a potentially embarrassing do

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

17 minute read

June 21, 2007 | Law.com

Mandatory retirement policies at law firms are a hot topic both because the baby boom generation of lawyers will soon hit retirement age and because of the ongoing federal age discrimination suit against Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Currently, some firms with a mandatory retirement age already allow individual attorneys to negotiate exceptions. And as retirement-age attorneys continue to show their worth, there are predictions that firms in general will move away from mandatory retirement policies.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

January 25, 2006 | The Recorder

The latest Vioxx trial has begun in Texas, but the judge's schedule calls for extended breaks, and that presents a challenge for lawyers on both sides.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

August 08, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas lawyers Fred Baron and Lisa Blue, who sold their equity interest in Baron & Budd to shareholder Russell Budd in 2002, filed a breach of contract suit on Aug. 3 alleging Budd, the firm and others conspired to deny them payments due under the sale contracts.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

July 24, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

A state district judge in Dallas recently signed a judgment ordering Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to pay a former client about $1.1 million in damages in a negligence suit.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 10, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Jenkens & Gilchrist wants an arbitrator to decide claims brought by four disgruntled clients who allege in a $1.4 billion federal-court suit that the firm gave them faulty tax advice in 1999 that is now at issue as the Internal Revenue Service examines the taxpayers' returns.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

August 31, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

After pleading guilty on Aug. 27 to three criminal charges that could put him in prison for 30 years, James M. Davis, the former chief financial officer for Stanford Financial Group and Stanford International Bank Ltd., expressed remorse for his actions that contributed to the downfall of the bank and began more than a decade ago.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read