Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

March 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Vinson & Elkins answered the prayers of big-firm associates all over Texas by hiking its associate salary scale, raising first-year base salaries to $135,000 in Texas. Within hours of V&E's announcement to its associates, Andrews Kurth notified its associates that the firm will increase its associate salary scale, but make the new, higher salaries retroactive to Jan. 1.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 09, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

The city of San Diego has sued Vinson & Elkins, alleging the firm failed to fully investigate problems with the city�s troubled pension system and provide a �warts and all� report into a $1.4 billion to $2 billion pension-funding shortfall.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

September 03, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

General counsel at 45 of Texas' largest companies made an average of $2,057,385 last year, considerably more than their counterparts at BigTex firms, where profits per partner averaged $773,000 in 2006. James D. Ellis, senior executive vice president and general counsel at AT&T Corp., heads the list of best-paid general counsel in Texas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

April 08, 2005 | Law.com

A Texas judge signed a judgment on Wednesday ordering Baker Botts and Wells Fargo Bank Texas to pay $71 million in damages to a former estate-planning client. The judge ordered the defendants to pay the money into a new trust that he used his "equitable powers" to create. "As far as I can tell, it's unprecedented in Texas law for a judge just to create a trust out of whole cloth," said defense attorney Dean Fleming. The firm and the bank will appeal the judgment.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

August 17, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

In a federal class-action suit filed on Aug. 6, the plaintiffs allege two Texas lawyers conspired with others to defraud debtors who sought help because of credit-card and unsecured debt and to "evade" Texas laws that regulate consumer debt management services, attorney-client solicitation and lawyer advertising. Charles E. Ames (pictured) represents the plaintiffs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

May 14, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Despite a major market move to higher associate salaries in California this month, Texas-based associates with large Texas-based firms are out of the big money, at least for a while.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

November 08, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

8 minute read

July 29, 2011 | Law.com

Snigdha Prakash, the author of a new book about a 2007 Vioxx trial, had a unique perspective, as she was embedded on plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier's legal team. Lanier admits "All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial" isn't always flattering to him, but says it's a good primer on trial work.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Gregory S. Coleman will leave Weil, Gotshal to open a new Austin office for litigation boutique Yetter & Warden and build an appellate practice for the firm.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

October 04, 2006 | Law.com

The SEC and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas are nosing around Round Rock, Texas-based Dell Inc.'s financial reporting, and nationally known and feared plaintiffs firm Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman Robbins recently filed a shareholder securities suit against Dell and two officers in the wake of a delayed quarterly earnings report. To help battle its difficulties, the computer company persuaded former longtime director Thomas Luce III to return to its board of directors.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read