Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

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

August 07, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Enron Task Force a major setback on Aug. 1 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.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

August 04, 2008 | Law.com

Prominent Texas plaintiffs lawyer Richard N. Laminack uses words such as "silly" and "ridiculous and not true" to respond to allegations in a lawsuit filed by former paralegal Angela Robinson that describes him as a "sexual predator" who participated in an effort to defraud fen-phen clients by overcharging them for expenses. Laminack says it's not true that he would, as Robinson claims, "routinely demand sexual favors" from employees, and he disputes the broader allegations involving fen-phen litigation.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

March 05, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist entered the waning days of February with offices in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago and Los Angeles, but it was clear by March 1 that lawyers in those offices were leaving for other firms and most if not all of Jenkens' branches would close. At the same time, firm leaders continued negotiations on a deal to move many lawyers at the Dallas headquarters to Hunton & Williams.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

12 minute read