Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

Senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys covers the business of law in Texas. Contact her at [email protected] On Twitter: @BrendaSJeffreys

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April 03, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Six More Firms Pack Associate Pay Punch

Six more large Texas firms recently announced raises for their associates working in Texas, moving to a new market rate that Vinson & Elkins set March 8.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

April 19, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Firm Believer: Baron & Budd Fires Back At Lawyer in Battle Over Alleged Misrepresentations

A Dallas County jury began hearing testimony in a suit in which a former Baron & Budd lawyer alleges Russell Budd, a founder of the well-known asbestos litigation firm, made negligent and fraudulent misrepresentations to induce him to join the firm in May 2006. Jim Hartnett Jr. (pictured, left) represents plaintiff Gary Cruciani.

By John Council and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

October 01, 2010 | Law.com

Lanier Firm Wrestles With Second Firm Over Referral Fees

The Lanier Law Firm and Kelly, Smith & Murrah are fighting over referral fees in a products liability case that settled with a $25 million judgment for the plaintiffs. The fee dispute is being waged in two different Texas courts. In Bexar County, the Lanier Law Firm is seeking a declaratory judgment that the plaintiffs did not hire Kelly Smith. Meanwhile, in Harris County, Kelly Smith filed a petition alleging a Lanier Law Firm associate tortiously interfered with its contingent fee agreement with the plaintiffs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Hughes & Luce and K&L Gates Partners Agree on Combo Deal

Partners in Dallas-based Hughes & Luce and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis of New York voted to combine the two firms as of Jan. 1, 2008, creating a 1,539-lawyer firm in 23 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

April 11, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Judge Found Dead Before Plea Deal Could Be Finalized

Judge Edward Aparicio of Edinburg was close to inking a plea deal with federal prosecutors in connection with a 15-month federal investigation into bribery allegations when the judge was found dead in his house on April 4 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

July 18, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Andrews Kurth Loses Lawyers to Fish & Richardson

Eight corporate and litigation lawyers recently left Andrews Kurth in Austin and joined Fish & Richardson. One of the lawyers making the move said they were attracted to Fish & Richardson's strong intellectual property practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 23, 2007 | Law.com

Leader of Weil's National Appellate Practice Leaves for Boutique

Gregory S. Coleman, head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges' national appellate litigation practice, has left the firm's Austin, Texas, office to join 23-lawyer litigation boutique Yetter & Warden. Coleman joined Weil Gotshal's Austin office in 2001. Before that, he was Texas' first solicitor general, a post he assumed in 1999 after having been an associate at Weil Gotshal in Houston. He said that during the time he led the national appellate practice, he built the group to about 10 full-time appellate lawyers.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

Most of Jenkens' San Antonio Office Moving to Jackson Walker

Jackson Walker is the latest firm to benefit from Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist's disintegration, with 10 Jenkens lawyers going to Jackson Walker by March 8. The announcement, confirming that Jenkens will close its San Antonio office, comes on the heels of similar developments in Los Angeles and Houston. A Jenkens spokesman said Tuesday the firm's Houston and L.A. offices will close as the lawyers go to new firms, and lawyers in the firm's Chicago office are in talks to open an office for Nixon Peabody.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read