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Jan, 28
2011
Countrywide RMBS Initiative Houston, January 28, 2011 – Counsel for BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP and Gibbs & Bruns LLP on behalf of certain investors including those who signed the previously-reported October 18, 2010 letter with respect to private label residential mortgage-backed securitizations, as well as counsel for The Bank of New York Mellon, as […]
Oct, 20
2010
Gibbs & Bruns is lead counsel to over a dozen large institutions who collectively hold over 25% of the Voting Rights in 225 securitization pools that issued over $175 billion of Countrywide-issued mortgage-backed securities. Our clients engaged us to enforce their rights, through the governing agreements, to compel the repurchase of ineligible mortgages that do […]
Oct, 18
2010
HOUSTON, October 18, 2010 – Today, the holders of over 25% of the Voting Rights in more than $47 billion of Countrywide-issued RMBS sent a Notice of Non-Performance (Notice) to Countrywide Home Loan Servicing, as Master Servicer (“Countrywide Servicing”), and to Bank of New York, as Trustee, identifying specific covenants in 115 Pooling and Servicing […]
Aug, 09
2010
HOUSTON, August 9, 2010 – Kathy Patrick, a partner in Gibbs & Bruns, represents The John M. O’Quinn Foundation, the sole beneficiary under the will of the late, legendary trial lawyer John O’Quinn. On August 9th, Patrick and Gibbs & Bruns associate Laura Kissel won an important preliminary victory when the Honorable Mike Wood, Harris […]
Aug, 01
2010
Robin Gibbs, Founding Partner of Gibbs & Bruns LLP, is featured in the July/August edition of The Houston Lawyer‘s “A Profile in Professionalism.” Click here to read Professionalism: An Essential Aspect of our Practice of Law.
May, 20
2010
On the heels of his service as President of the Houston Bar Association (HBA), Gibbs & Bruns partner Barrett Reasoner assumed a role on the State Bar of Texas’s Board of Directors this June. Barrett serves as Representative of District 4, Place 1 with a term that expires in 2013. The Board serves as the governing body of […]
May, 10
2010
HOUSTON, May 10, 2010 – Gibbs & Bruns LLP received the prestigious 2009 Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award in the mid-size firm category at the second annual Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award ceremony today. The Houston Bar Association and the Harris County judiciary established the award program to recognize outstanding pro bono service […]
Apr, 30
2010
HOUSTON, April 30, 2010 – Following a complex three-month jury trial against the Port of Houston Authority—and a resulting jury verdict for Gibbs & Bruns client Zachry Construction Corporation—the trial court entered final judgment this week awarding Zachry $23.4 million in damages. This breach of contract lawsuit arose from the Port’s last-minute rejection of a […]
Apr, 22
2010
HOUSTON, April 22, 2010 —Robin C. Gibbs, founding partner of Gibbs & Bruns LLP, received the prestigious Leon Green award from the University of Texas School of Law. Mr. Gibbs accepted the award during the Texas Law Review’s Annual Banquet which was headlined with a keynote address by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. […]
Jan, 21
2010
HOUSTON, January 21, 2010 – Following a lengthy, complex jury trial against the Port of Houston Authority, Gibbs & Bruns emerged with a nearly $20 million jury verdict for its client, Zachry Construction Corporation. The breach of contract lawsuit arose out of the Port’s last-minute rejection of a contractually approved construction method that Zachry intended […]