Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

August 22, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The summer associate hiring market for 2012 is shaping up to be at least as solid as last year, which is a signal that Texas firms and others with large operations in Texas are feeling bullish about business prospects for next year. "People are hoping for the best and hoping the worst is gone," says Carrie Hoffman, the summer hiring partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell.

By Jeanne Graham and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

August 21, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

The high-stakes battle over whether Houston lawyer Ronald D. Krist should help defend BP from suits filed over a deadly explosion at the company's Texas City refinery took another twist on Monday when a former client who had hired Krist's firm to sue BP over the explosion filed a professional negligence suit against Krist, the firm and others.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

May 24, 1999 | Law.com

Texas plaintiffs lawyers handling fen-phen suits say recent settlement overtures by American Home Products Corp. will not distract them from taking suits to trial in Texas this summer and getting the nation's first fen-phen verdict. Eight Texas plaintiffs lawyers say they are open to talking with the mass-tort litigation's primary defendant, American Home Products, about settling their individual suits, but they aren't expecting any speedy national settlement.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

July 20, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

It's crunch time for the nearly 3,000 would-be Texas lawyers who will take the Texas bar exam July 28-30. With butterflies in their stomachs and sweaty palms, the nervous test-takers probably can use some advice from Texas attorneys who went through the same rite of passage. Texas Lawyer talked to Manny Alvarez (pictured) and 11 other lawyers who share their best test-taking tips, some of them with interview videos.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, John Council and Mary Alice Robbins

14 minute read

August 15, 2006 | National Law Journal

Jerry K. Clements, a litigation partner in Locke Liddell & Sapp in Austin, Texas, will become the 378-lawyer firm's new managing partner on Jan. 1 when current managing partner Bryan Goolsby, a corporate partner in Dallas, gives up his managing partner duties. Clements had a high-profile role last year as Locke Liddell's primary spokesperson after President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

March 03, 2003 | New York Law Journal

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

June 08, 2000 | Law.com

The five plaintiffs' lawyers who negotiated a $17.3 billion settlement between Texas and the tobacco industry returned $6.9 million in expense money, a move Texas Attorney General John Cornyn says raises "troubling questions." "Their misrepresentation of expenses just raises more questions and strongly reinforces the need to determine what happened in the tobacco case," Cornyn says.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

October 31, 2005 | Law.com

W. Mark Lanier, the Houston lawyer who won a $253.5 million verdict in the nation's first Vioxx pharmaceutical suit, wants another shot at a big win. In theory, attempts by Lanier and his small, breakaway group of plaintiffs lawyers to try future Vioxx suits in state, rather than federal, court will pressure Merck & Co. to come to the settlement bargaining table. But a judge overseeing the Vioxx litigation told a courtroom full of lawyers last week that the plans of Lanier's group are "counterproductive."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read

June 14, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

A walking tour of San Antonio, site of the State Bar's annual meeting.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 13, 2004 | Legaltech News

Corporate in-house lawyers in Texas and elsewhere are taking advantage of electronic billing's efficiencies. E-billing can be a win-win by making it easier for lawyers to receive and review invoices from outside counsel, and by speeding up payments to outside firms. Many legal departments choose to do a trial run to test a system out before fully adopting it. Complaints? Not many.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read