Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

April 12, 2004 | Law.com

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

May 29, 2007 | Law.com

Texas entertainment lawyer Leslie Warren Cross uses MySpace.com as a marketing tool and as a way to stay in touch with musician clients. Other lawyers with MySpace pages that advertise their firms say it's a legitimate way to reach prospective clients, particularly younger people who aren't likely to look in newspapers or in telephone directories for lawyers. MySpace works well for music attorneys because more than 3 million artists and bands use MySpace to promote albums and interact with fans.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

June 16, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips will join Baker Botts in September as a litigation partner, rejoining the firm where he began his private practice in 1975.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

June 23, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

The new firm, Thompson & Horton, will maintain a close working relationship with Bracewell. Kelly Frels, a senior partner in Bracewell, will work as a liaison between the firms. The planned tight relationship between 424-lawyer Bracewell and its spinoff will benefit clients and both firms, says J. David Thompson, one of the 10 lawyers who plan to form the boutique.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

November 03, 2005 | Law.com

A former female associate at Godwin Gruber has filed a federal civil rights suit against the firm, alleging she was paid less than male associates with comparable or less experience. Renee Jones Page, who is African-American, claims the firm discriminated against her due to her gender and race. She also alleges the firm reduced the quality and quantity of her assignments after she told her supervisor she would take a maternity leave, making it difficult to earn raises and bonuses.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

May 02, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyer checked up on the designated family law courts in Dallas and Houston to see how the judges spend their time. Results showd that the majority of the judges were doing exactly what the voters elected them to do -- they were on the bench or in their chambers working.

By John Council, Mark Donald, Anne K. McMillan and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

19 minute read

December 19, 2002 | Law.com

As GC of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the world's largest private funder of breast cancer research, Andrew G. Halpern is a man on a mission. Instead of benefiting shareholders or corporate executives, the profits of Halpern's organization go to breast cancer research and prevention. More than 80 percent of the revenues coming into the 20-year-old, Dallas-based foundation go to charity.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read

January 30, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

San Francisco-based corporate-immigration firm Berry Appleman & Leiden plans to open offices in Dallas and Houston in February.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

October 13, 2005 | Law.com

Big-company general counsel jobs in Texas may not be as lucrative as they used to be. For the third year in a row, the average pay package for GCs at some of Texas' largest corporations slipped, according to Texas Lawyer's "Corporate Roster 2005" report. That's not to say high-ranking legal execs at Fortune 1,000 companies in Texas aren't making a lot of money -- a lot more, in fact, than the average partners in Texas' highest-grossing firms. The average GC pay package was $1,193,326.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

13 minute read

December 08, 2006 | Law.com

A year ago Texas lawyer Ileta Sumner was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Since then she's been taking medication to control debilitating headaches and high blood pressure and trying to eliminate her persistent insomnia. Sumner had hoped to return to her job as GC of Family Violence Prevention Services by the summer but instead had to leave her position because she wasn't physically able to handle the high stress. But she misses her public interest job and hopes to go back someday.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

11 minute read