Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

May 26, 2010 | Law.com

U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas, who will decide if insurers holding directors' and officers' policies for Stanford Financial Group can refuse to pay legal fees for R. Allen Stanford, expressed concern at a Tuesday hearing after Stanford indicated he has never met some of the lawyers who have been paid by the insurance companies and he doesn't know what they have done for him. Atlas set a hearing for next month, to be attended by all the lawyers who claim to represent Stanford, to determine "who's on first."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

July 25, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

The lawmakers working in the 82nd session of the Texas Legislature passed 5,526 of 10,315 bills introduced during the regular session, which began on Jan. 11 and ended on May 30. During the special session that ended on June 29, legislators introduced another 574 bills and passed 448 of them. Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed a total of 24 bills, according to information on the Texas Legislature's website.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

14 minute read

October 09, 2006 | Law.com

Thomas Luce III has rejoined Dell's board of directors in the midst of an investigation of the company's financial reporting.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

August 11, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

The Texas Supreme Court has denied a petition for writ of mandamus sought by Republican state officials in an effort to force 11 Democratic state senators who fled to Albuquerque, N.M., back to the Senate to work on congressional redistricting.

By Mary Alice Robbins and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

September 05, 2007 | Law.com

General counsel at 45 of Texas' largest companies made an average of $2,057,385 last year, according to Texas Lawyer's annual Corporate Roster, considerably more than their counterparts at law firms, where profits per partner averaged $773,000 in 2006. One recruiter says big-firm lawyers don't seek in-house jobs for the money. Often, he says, they take a pay cut to move to corporate legal departments for "lifestyle" reasons. But it can pay off, if the lawyer is fortunate enough to move up to GC.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

March 06, 2007 | Law.com

Dallas-based plaintiffs firm Baron & Budd has laid off 19 lawyers, including six shareholders, plus five attorneys from affiliate LeBlanc & Waddell in Louisiana. Baron will lose 100 staffers; LeBlanc's staff will drop by 37. After the layoffs, Baron will have 49 attorneys; LeBlanc will have six. Russell Budd, managing shareholder, attributed the layoffs to a "changed business model." Recent asbestos-related tort reforms appear to have reduced the firms' overall caseload while adding complex cases.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

January 07, 2005 | Law.com

Citing the effect of false testimony by an expert witness for the prosecution, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned Andrea P. Yates' 2002 murder conviction and ordered a new trial for the mentally unstable woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub. The witness had testified that an episode of "Law & Order" -- about a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children and was found insane -- aired before the crime. No such episode was ever shown.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

4 minute read

March 15, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

Six lawyers from Houston sat at a table in Washington, D.C., on March 14, responding to questions from U.S. House members investigating the collapse of Enron Corp. Even before the klieg lights turned on, an aide to the House committee that called Enron in-house and outside counsel to the hearing indicated which of the six was the prime target - former general counsel James V. Derrick.

By BRENDA SAPINO JEFFREYS and MIRIAM ROZEN

12 minute read

May 17, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal prosecutor told jurors hearing the criminal case against former Enron Corp. Chairman Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling that the two executives used accounting tricks, fiction, trickery, half truths, omissions and outright lies to paint a dramatically distorted picture of Enron's true financial condition.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys ALM

6 minute read

January 19, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

A federal judge has refused a request from a federal prosecutor to dismiss five charges pending against Lea Fastow, wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

10 minute read