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Senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys covers the business of law in Texas. Contact her at [email protected] On Twitter: @BrendaSJeffreys
April 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer
After a Preston Hollow, Texas, neighbor complained that his son's pet donkey was a loud nuisance, Dallas lawyer C. Gregory Shamoun brought the donkey, known as Buddy, into a courtroom on Wedn
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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May 17, 2006 | Texas Lawyer
In a high-volume, passionate argument, defense attorney Daniel Petrocelli implored jurors to find his client, former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, not guilty of c
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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December 12, 2005 | Texas Lawyer
A federal judge this morning declared a mistrial in the nation's first federal Vioxx trial after a Southern District of Texas jury was unable to decide on a verdict.U.S. District
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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April 16, 2007 | Texas Lawyer
Three years ago, when a team of plaintiffs lawyers led by John O'Quinn of Houston tried a fen-phen suit in a Beaumont, Texas, courtroom and won a $1 billion verdict, including $900 million in
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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May 11, 2009 | Texas Lawyer
Former U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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February 12, 2007 | National Law Journal
HOUSTON-Reliant Energy Inc. wants a federal judge to give it permission to ignore a request from a shareholder who wants to place a proposal on Reliant's 2007 proxy statement that could
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys / Texas Lawyer
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June 28, 2010 | National Law Journal
The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the district courts' official online bulletins. U.S. DISTRICT COU
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April 12, 2006 | Texas Lawyer
Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling, testifying for the second day at his criminal trial, said on April 11 that he and co-defendant Kenneth Lay, Enron's one-time
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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March 22, 2007 | Texas Lawyer
Messy litigation pitting former shareholder Fred Baron against Baron & Budd, the plaintiffs firm he founded, just got a lot more complicated for Vinson & Elkins partner Bill Sims, who rep
By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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April 6, 2006 | Texas Lawyer
If asked, Vinson & Elkins would not have been able to conduct a truly independent investigation into Sherron Watkins' allegations of accounting irregularities at Enron Corp., because the
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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