Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

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

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