Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

August 11, 2006 | Law.com

The 5th Circuit recently handed the Enron Task Force a major setback with an opinion that reverses conspiracy and wire fraud convictions of four defendants in the so-called Nigerian Barge trial and vacates the conviction of one of them for insufficient evidence. The panel overturned the convictions after finding that the honest-services theory of wire fraud does not extend to the circumstances alleged by federal prosecutors at trial.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

October 08, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Tired of waiting for the State Bar of Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee to respond to a complaint he filed in May, Corpus Christi plaintiffs personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry began running television advertisements on Sept. 28 questioning the credentials of Mauricio Celis, a partner in CGT Law Group International in Corpus Christi, which also represents plaintiffs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

February 01, 2000 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

August 13, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

A month after V&E announced its new pay scale, many associates in Texas don't know how much of a raise they'll get, if any. Other Texas firms are testing new ways of calculating associate compensation. On the outside, in-house, lawyers, recruiters and law schools are trying to determine how the salary increases will change their own lives. "I don't care how much they pay associates. But to the extent that it changes our rates, I do," says Russell F. Coleman, general counsel of Dallas-based Belo Corp.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

12 minute read

October 09, 2007 | Law.com

Tired of waiting for the State Bar of Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee to respond to a complaint he filed in May, personal injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry began running TV ads last month questioning the credentials of Mauricio Celis, a partner in CGT Law Group International, which also represents plaintiffs. In the commercial, Henry alleges that Celis is not licensed as a lawyer and asks CGT clients to contact him.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

May 22, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

When Houston's Frontera Resources Corp. went public in 2005, it raised close to $90 million in an initial public offering on the Alternative Investment Market in London instead of on the NASDAQ exchange in New York. One reason Frontera chose the London exchange was the ability to avoid the cost of complying with U.S. SEC rules as well as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

July 26, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Stuart Levin and John Atwood believe they have figured out how to build a firm in the suburbs and attract small-town and big-city clients. They treat their clients like family, not like commodities, and say the 5-year-old firm, Levin & Atwood, is well on the way to building a 12-lawyer business boutique in Katy. Levin, a former Judge Advocate General officer in the U.S. Air Force and in-house lawyer, and Atwood, who had an earlier career in the oil business, say they provide a level of service to clients

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS

7 minute read

August 30, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Less than three weeks after Belo Corp. announced that its flagship paper, The Dallas Morning News, had overstated circulation numbers in 2003, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins of San Diego filed a shareholder securities class action against the Dallas-based media company in federal court in Dallas.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 03, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Andrew S. Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, was charged on Wednesday with defrauding shareholders and reaping millions in ill-gotten gains in an alleged scheme to inflate the Houston energy company's profits. If convicted on charges of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and aiding and abetting, Fastow could face a maximum of 140 years in prison.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

January 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Houston Partner Moved to United Arab Emirates to Manage Branch

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read