Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 12, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

In the months since Enron Corp.`s stock took a nosedive and the Houston-based energy trading company filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Vinson & Elkins has been trying to free itself from the Enron morass.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

12 minute read

January 29, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Houston's Vinson & Elkins, longtime outside counsel for Enron Corp., was dismissed as a defendant from a massive shareholder securities class action.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 08, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Attention law firms: Do you know what content is on your Web site? Faced with unexpected criticism about the propriety of several stock photo illustrations on its site, Houston's Lindeman Alvarado & Frye moved quickly to remove images of a woman and children that were used to illustrate the firm's criminal defense practice areas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

April 10, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

James Derrick Jr., Enron's former general counsel, testified for the defense on April 6 in the criminal trial of former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling that he made the right call by hiring Houston's Vinson & Elkins in 2001 to investigate Sherron Watkins' allegations of accounting improprieties at Enron.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

April 12, 2005 | Law.com

Texas Judge Edward Aparicio was close to inking a plea deal in connection with a 15-month federal investigation into bribery allegations when he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three lawyers who represented Aparicio say they had almost finalized details of an agreement. "We were very close to a resolution that I thought would be acceptable to the judge. I was enormously surprised" by his death, said Houston solo practitioner Michael Ramsey.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

February 06, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas-based Bickel & Brewer, a 35-lawyer firm, launched its own investigative unit in January. It�s staffed by three former agents and a former training instructor with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

September 13, 2005 | Law.com

Anthony Falisi faced a bleak job market after graduating from New York Law School in 1993, so he took his father's advice and did some networking at an insurance trade convention. There, Falisi ran into a guy whose father owned Examination Management Services Inc., at that time a $60 million Texas company without a general counsel. After Falisi met his new friend's father, John Utley, the wet-behind-the-ears lawyer ended up becoming EMSI's GC. A dozen years later, Falisi is still there.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

April 04, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

When the general counsel of Legend Natural Gas called a Vinson & Elkins partner to see if she could represent the Katy-based private company in a shale asset acquisition, the partner had to turn down the work. Legend is a client, but the firm already was representing the seller, Range Resources Corp. of Fort Worth, in the sale of the Barnett Shale properties. The Houston lawyer says Range Resources engaged her before it took bids for the asset sale, and, as it turned out, her client Legend was one of the bidders.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 16, 2009 | Law.com

R. Allen Stanford has new lawyers, but they are not from Patton Boggs, which announced in late July it was replacing criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin as the Houston financier's criminal defense firm. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas appointed the federal public defender's office to represent Stanford after determining that Stanford does not have money immediately available to pay for private attorneys.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

May 03, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Pauline Higgins, who was fired on Feb. 23 as general counsel of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (Metro), has filed a defamation and whistleblower suit that names Metro and Frank J. Wilson, its president and chief executive officer, as defendants.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read