Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

July 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

Michael Shelby, a litigation partner at Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, died Tuesday. Reports say Shelby was found dead at his home of what authorities described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Shelby, 47, had been ill with cancer. A former Harris County assistant district attorney and longtime federal prosecutor, Shelby was U.S. Attorney in Houston in 2001 through 2005, when he joined Fulbright, where he was the partner in charge of the firm's nationwide white-collar crime defense practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 10, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

The business practices of a partner in Austin-based tax collection firm Linebarger Goggan Blair Pena & Sampson are at issue after he was indicted on Oct. 9 in San Antonio on charges he participated in a conspiracy to bribe two San Antonio city councilmen for a city collection contract.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 13, 2005 | The Recorder

The nine-member jury in Texas was unable to reach a verdict in the case against Merck, the maker of the painkiller Vioxx.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 08, 2006 | Law.com

Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow testified Tuesday in the criminal trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay that he considered himself a "hero" for helping Enron manipulate its earnings through improper deals with some off-balance-sheet entities that he set up and managed. Fastow, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to two criminal charges and faces 10 years in prison, said he also benefited financially from the deals.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 16, 2004 | The Recorder

Amid the turbulent skies hovering above Jenkens & Gilchrist these days, one black cloud may soon float away. the Dallas-based firm announced it has agreed to a proposed $75 million class-action settlement of litigation filed by disgruntled former clients who hired the firm for tax advice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and MiriamRozen

14 minute read

May 19, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Former Houston lawyer Stuart Bryson Collins gave up his Texas law license in 1994 to end a suit brought by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline and moved to Quebec, Canada, to build a new career in the organic farming business. Now he's fighting extradition back to Texas to face two 1995 felony charges of misappropriation of funds from clients of his former law practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

February 27, 2006 | The Recorder

The former Playboy model plans to attend Supreme Court arguments in her appeal of a Ninth Circuit opinion in her probate case.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

November 22, 2010 | Law.com

Clients of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell have sued the firm, two partners and a former partner, alleging they failed to disclose a conflict of interest. Larry Joe Doherty and Brett Wagner represent the plaintiffs in Daryl Scott Tautenhahn, et al. v. Locke Lord Bissell & Liddel, et al.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

May 05, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

A federal judge has granted former Enron Corp. general counsel James V. Derrick Jr.'s motion to be dismissed as a defendant in the massive Enron shareholder securities class action, Mark Newby, et al. v. Enron Corp., et al.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

July 12, 2004 | Law.com

An hour after pleading not guilty in a criminal indictment, former Enron Chairman Ken Lay took the unusual step of appearing at a well-orchestrated press conference. Such behavior contrasts markedly with most white-collar defendants' behavior, but the attorney for another Enron figure says the prosecutions are so politicized, they demand strategies beyond standard practices. Still, others predict that as the defense fine-tunes its tactics the fingerpointing will slow considerably.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read