Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

October 03, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

When a Vinson & Elkins mergers-and-acquisitions partner was a young lawyer, he helped Global Industries, then based in Louisiana, go public. Now, 19 years after that initial public offering, he and an M&A partner led the team representing Global in its pending acquisition by Technip, a French company, in a deal valued at more than $1 billion.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

January 05, 2007 | National Law Journal

Change is afoot at Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist for the new year, with shareholder Patrick Mitchell poised to succeed Thomas Cantrill as chairman this month, and the 251-lawyer firm shutting the doors on offices in Washington, D.C., and Pasadena, Calif. Jenkens has its headquarters in Dallas, and additional offices in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Chicago and Los Angeles.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

2 minute read

August 01, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

A jury verdict in San Antonio in a negligence suit against a health-maintenance organization may provide plaintiffs with a detour around the U.S. Supreme Court�s 2004 decision in Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, which bars many coverage suits against HMOs.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

August 29, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Charles Hurwitz's 10-year court battle with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took a big turn in his favor on Aug. 23, when U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston issued a strongly worded opinion ordering the FDIC to pay $72.3 million in sanctions to Houston-based Maxxam Inc.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 08, 2009 | Law.com

Firms with the largest Texas offices shed some lawyers between July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, but the percentages of minority and female lawyers didn't slip. While 24 of the 26 firms with the most lawyers in Texas lost 2.9 percent of their lawyers, the percentage of minority lawyers increased by 0.6 percent and the percentage of female lawyers rose by 0.2 percent. "That statistic is definitely indicative of progress on some level in minority retention," says Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Emmanuel Obi.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

September 20, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a $10,000 sanction against Ophelia F. Camiña, a partner in Susman Godfrey in Dallas. The panel found that U.S. District Judge David Godbey (pictured) lacked authority to impose sanctions against Camiña for her conduct in an arbitration.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

August 10, 2009 | Law.com

It's really all about the fees. Houston criminal defense attorney Dick DeGuerin no longer wants to represent R. Allen Stanford, -- who has been in custody since June, after he pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges -- because he doesn't have assurance that Stanford will have money to pay him for future work. But Stanford's new legal team hasn't filed papers to substitute into Stanford's criminal case, because they too want to be sure they will be paid.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 14, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

With tort reform putting pressure on trial lawyers on both sides of the docket, Dallas-based Winstead Sechrest & Minick recently hired several commercial litigators accustomed to representing plaintiffs, in order to build a contingent-fee practice.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

May 16, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Howrey Simon Arnold & White has been known informally as Howrey for a while, but now the short name is official. Howrey isn't the first firm to adopt a shorter, institutional name, and it probably won't be the last as the trend continues to come on strong. Other firms in Texas, such as Brown McCarroll, went short and sweet by lopping off the trailing names in a long name.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

March 23, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A group of intellectual property lawyers from Jenkens & Gilchrist's Chicago office closed a deal to open an office in the Windy City for Nixon Peabody, which has offices on the East and West Coasts but not in the Midwest.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read