Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

December 10, 2001 | Law.com

With its two founding shareholders moving toward retirement, litigation boutique Woodard, Hall & Primm of Houston becomes the latest in a long string of well-known Texas firms to dissolve. "We weren't able to grow the firm internally," says former shareholder Larkin Eakin Jr. "The decision was very informally made that it was best to go our own ways."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 03, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

After more than two decades of working at in-house jobs and at firms, Kathryn Turpin has found a comfortable niche in Austin. Turpin is general counsel of AntiqueLand USA Inc., a privately owned company that operates 15 antique and craft malls across the country. She works about eight to 10 hours a week at her office at AntiqueLand. During the rest of the workweek, Turpin is a corporate counsel at Broadwing Communications Services Inc. in Austin.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

February 03, 2000 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

April 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Former White House counsel and one-time Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will return to Locke Liddell & Sapp as a partner in the public policy and litigation groups. "There's about eight or 10 former White House counsel in the country these days, and they are all at very high-profile firms. It's exciting for us to get her back," says Locke Liddell managing partner Jerry Clements. Miers' name has been in the news again regarding whether she had a role in the dismissals of eight U.S. Attorneys.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 11, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

Pizza Inn Inc., the restaurant and food company based in The Colony, filed a breach of fiduciary duty suit on Oct. 5 alleging Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and partner J. Kenneth Menges Jr. helped enrich some Pizza Inn executives at the expense of the company.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

August 08, 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

May 21, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

There's no shortage of lawyers on either side of a controversial ordinance that's set to go into effect in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch on May 22. Barring a last-minute court order from a federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the constitutionality of Ordinance 2903, beginning on May 22 landlords in Farmers Branch will be prohibited from renting to most immigrants who cannot prove their citizenship or legal residency status.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

October 03, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

General counsel who are among the highest-paid executives at large Texas companies earned a little more silver to put in their pockets in 2010 than the year before. Wayne Watts, senior executive vice president and general counsel of AT&T Inc. in Dallas, heads the list of the best-paid general counsel in 2010 in Texas with total compensation of $9,244,814.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

June 08, 2011 | Legaltech News

Dallas lawyer Cary Schulman and his firm have sued attorney Blake Hyde and his former firm, alleging they slandered and libeled him in e-mails Hyde sent to Schulman's clients. The plaintiffs' causes of action include slander and slander per se, statutory libel per se and common-law libel per se, and intentional interference with contractual relations.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

April 07, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge David Hittner of Houston on April 7 rejected a plea agreement Lea Fastow — the wife of former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow — had with federal prosecutors that called for her to spend five months in federal prison and another five confined to her house.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

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