Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

August 01, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Eric G. Andell, a former juvenile and appeals court judge in Houston, was sentenced on July 29 to a year of unsupervised probation on a misdemeanor criminal charge in connection with expense reports filed with the U.S. Department of Education.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

June 02, 2000 | Law.com

Tina Simon has found a comfortable home as general counsel at Home Interiors & Gifts, a legendary Dallas, Texas-based party-plan, home-decorating company. And she is particularly proud of the fact that she has become general counsel of a company founded by a woman to provide careers for women.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

April 28, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Seven transactional partners in Houston-based Vinson & Elkins, led by Marcia Backus, will move to the firm's New York City office from Houston and Washington, D.C., as part of a long-term plan to make the New York office a "flagship office" of the 760-lawyer firm. Backus says she and the other six partners are already spending a lot of time in New York City doing work for New York-based clients, so the expansion in the Empire State makes sense.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

May 16, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

A former client and his company have sued Jackson Walker, two partners and a former partner, alleging they breached their fiduciary duty by failing to inform them of a potential conflict of interest. Larry R. Hargrave of Cleveland and his company, American Rig Housing Inc. (ARH), filed the May 10 suit against Dallas-based Jackson Walker, two partners and a former partner.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

August 13, 2007 | Law.com

At a time when lawyers think little about jumping from firm to firm in search of a bigger paycheck, and unfulfilled lawyers are taking early retirement, the 50-year partnership between Anthony "Nic" Nicholas and Roy Barrera Sr. is a throwback to a different era. In 1957, the two San Antonio lawyers launched their firm on a handshake. A lawyer and longtime friend of the two says Barrera and Nicholas ought to give other lawyers lessons on how to maintain a partnership and a friendship.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

February 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The energy business is far and away the leading reason why a growing number of large Texas firms have opened offices halfway around the world in the booming market of China.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

May 22, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

The state did not have authority to remove some of the more than 450 children from the Yearning for Zion ranch located outside Eldorado, Austin's 3rd Court of Appeals ruled today. The panel found that evidence presented at a district court hearing in April was "legally and factually insufficient" to support the judge's findings that the department maintain custody of the children.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

August 24, 2006 | The Recorder

Emergency relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been marred by scams involving FEMA cards and other federal reimbursement.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

June 02, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

March 29, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

The day a lawyer makes partner in a firm is a red-letter date in a career. Six new partners in large firms in Texas discuss out how they learned about their partner promotion, who they called first and how they celebrated.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read