Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

June 20, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

The plaintiffs in the massive Enron Corp. securities class action are beginning to extract big money from the deep pockets of banking-company defendants.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

6 minute read

October 13, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Imagine trying to complete an acquisition without power or cell phone service in a city ravaged by a hurricane, during the midst of a financial meltdown that shot holes in the deal's once-solid financing. That's what lawyers representing ION Geophysical Corp. had to cope with to finish acquisition of Canadian company ARAM Systems Ltd. for $236 million in cash plus ION common stock.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

9 minute read

March 17, 2008 | The Recorder

The Cisco lawyer who anonymously blogged about Cisco cases has royally irritated the lawyers on the other side. And defamed them, if a matched pair of suits are to be believed.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, John Council and Miriam Rozen

9 minute read

January 08, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Change is afoot for the new year at Dallas-based Jenkens & Gilchrist, with tax shareholder Patrick Mitchell poised to succeed Thomas Cantrill as chairman and president on Jan. 17 and the firm shutting the doors on offices in Washington, D.C., and Pasadena, Calif.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

April 21, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Karen Austin, general counsel of Lewisville's American Building Control, found herself in a touchy situation after she began to question whether the company's chief executive officer might have personally benefited from some corporate purchases. But she says that reporting provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Fraud and Accountability Act helped her obtain the authority to follow through on her concerns about some related-party transactions involving the former CEO.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read

December 20, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

5 minute read

November 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Houston lawyer who won a $253.5 million verdict in August in the nation's first Vioxx pharmaceutical suit, wants another shot at a big win. But W. Mark Lanier wants to do it in state � not federal � court, and on his own � not as part of a multidistrict litigation pool.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

November 21, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

When Houston plaintiffs lawyer W. Mark Lanier bought a 15-foot piece of art at a charity auction held at Christie's in New York in 2003, he says he didn't have a clue where he would display it. But Lanier found the perfect location for the paint, pencil and charcoal drawing created by U2 frontman Bono and the singer's two daughters — Lanier had it installed in the elevator lobby of his firm's brand-new New York City office.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

3 minute read

September 14, 2009 | Law.com

Jury selection begins today in a case that pits intellectual property litigator Eric Albritton against tech company Cisco Systems. Albritton alleges in his June 16, 2008, federal court complaint that Richard Frenkel, a one-time in-house lawyer at Cisco, defamed him in anonymous postings on Frenkel's Patent Troll Tracker blog in October 2007. The suits have attracted considerable attention due to the popularity of the Patent Troll Tracker blog, which is currently "open to invited readers only."

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

8 minute read

July 24, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

An arbitration panel has ordered the firm of Houston plaintiffs lawyer John M. O�Quinn to pay $35.7 million in damages to a class of 3,450 former breast implant clients who allege the firm overcharged them for expenses.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

7 minute read