* Emeritus Professor Gavin P Vinson, at the School of Biological & Chemical Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.

* August 22 Watkins meets with Lay, giving him a seven-page letter stating that Enron may be an " elaborate accounting hoax ," and advises him not to involve Vinson & Elkins, Enron's law firm, because of potential conflicts of interest.

* October 15 Vinson & Elkins deliver a report which states that Arthur Andersen approved of Enron's accounting procedures, and that Enron did nothing wrong.

* General Sessions & Juvenile Judge: W. Sidney Vinson

Eddie " Cleanhead " Vinson ( December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988 ) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R & B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.

Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury Records, and enjoying a double-sided hit in 1947 with his R & B chart-topper " Old Maid Boogie ", and the song that would prove to be his signature number, " Kidney Stew Blues ".

Division & Discord: The Supreme Court Under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953.

First City was founded by Judge James Andersen Elkins and his law firm, Vinson & Elkins, one of Enron's lead law firms.

A filing with Federal Election Commission in October said that Ney had paid the law firm Vinson & Elkins $ 136, 000 from July through September, from campaign funds.

Mark Tuohey, the lead lawyer at Vinson & Elkins, said Ney " needs money for his campaign and that's a priority right now.

After graduating from law school, Minow worked for the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt ( 1950 – 1951 and 1953 – 1955 ) before becoming a law clerk to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of the U. S. Supreme Court ( 1951 – 1952 ).

Vinson & Elkins LLP ( or V & E ) is an international law firm headquartered in the First City Tower in Downtown Houston, Texas.

The firm has offices in 16 major energy, financial, and political centers worldwide, including Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Moscow, New York City, Palo Alto, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Washington, D. C. Vinson & Elkins ranks among the most prestigious law firms in Texas, and is generally considered the top law firm in the country for energy law.

With annual revenues of $ 602. 5 million dollars and more than 700 attorneys, Vinson & Elkins ranked 42nd in The American Lawyer's 2011 Am Law 100 rankings of U. S. law firms based on revenue.

The focus is not surprising given the birth of the modern petroleum industry took place at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas, only 80 miles from Vinson & Elkins ' initial office in Houston.

During the years following Enron's collapse, Vinson & Elkins was the subject of a number of claims, and its representation of Enron endured scrutiny by news organizations, the U. S. Congress, and federal agencies.

Vinson & Elkins was voluntarily dismissed without payment in January 2007 from the last significant litigation involving the Enron collapse.

In 2009, for the second year in a row, Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers named Vinson & Elkins one of the " Best Law Firms for Women ," citing the firm ’ s continued focus on work-life and women-friendly policies.

In 2009, the City of Houston ’ s Flexible Workplace Initiative Program honored Vinson & Elkins for the second consecutive year with the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

Outside of the legal arena, Vinson & Elkins has also been recognized for its community involvement and support of the arts.

* James A. Elkins, Co-Founder, Vinson & Elkins LLP ; Founder, First City Bank

* William A. Vinson, Co-Founder, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Following his failed bid for Senate, Kirk returned to the law firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas, and was briefly a candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee after the 2004 election, and was a partner with the Houston-based law firm Vinson and Elkins, where, according to Texans for Public Justice, he was, as of March 2007, one of the four highest paid lobbyists for Energy Future Holdings Corporation, the group created by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs to acquire TXU.

Gonzales was an attorney in private practice from 1982 until 1994 with the Houston law firm Vinson and Elkins, where he became a partner – the first Hispanic partner ( along with one other new partner that year ) in the firm ’ s history – and where he worked primarily with business clients.

The firm was founded in Houston, Texas, in 1917 by Judge James A. Elkins and William A. Vinson.

* Claude Pollard, Co-Founder Vinson, Elkins, Wood and Pollard, Attorney General of Texas ( 1927 – 1929 )

* Vinson and Elkins official website

The climb of Vinson offers little technical difficulty beyond the usual hazards of travel in Antarctica, and as one of the Seven Summits, it has received much attention from well-funded climbers in recent years.

's, Einstürzende Neubauten, the Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio, Brian Eno, Marlene Dietrich, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Xavier Cugat, Junior Kimbrough, Laura Dukes, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Chris Spedding, Jimmy Reed, The Nightcrawlers, the Velvet Underground, Junior Parker, Othar Turner, Charlie Feathers, Howling Wolf, Mose Vinson, Van Zula Hunt, Cordell Jackson, Ronnie Hawkins, the Ventures, Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley, Skip James, Pat Hare, The Doors, R. L. Burnside, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Fahey, Joe Meek, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Gene Pitney, and Elmore James, among many others Falco has listed over the years.

Ervin has practiced law in the private sector in Houston twice, first with Vinson & Elkins from 1985 to 1989, and later with Locke, Liddell & Sapp from 1993-1995.

As the famous story goes, Associate Justice Frankfurter remarked that Chief Justice Vinson ’ s death in 1953 ( that is, in the middle of the Brown v. Board of Education case ) was perhaps the only evidence of the existence of God he has ever witnessed.

Vinson has been in a relationship with Kellan Lutz since September 2011.

The dispute aggravated infighting between Black and Jackson and it has been suggested that this was one of the reasons that when Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone died, President Harry S. Truman appointed Fred M. Vinson to succeed Stone rather than promote a sitting Associate Justice to Chief Justice.

Walter Vinson Grant, Jr., who goes by W. V. Grant, ( born May 1945 ) is an American televangelist whose ministry has been based in the Dallas, Texas, area.

Purl has been married four times: in 1980 to Desi Arnaz, Jr. ( son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ); in 1988 to William Broyles Jr. ( screenwriter ); in 1993 to Alexander Cary ( screenwriter, producer ) ( one son together ) and to James Vinson Adams since July 15, 2006.

However, Vinson supposedly wrote these tunes for Davis, and this is probably how the confusion has occurred.

The son of minister Walter Vinson Grant, Sr., in 1983 Grant took over Soul's Harbor Church ( located in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas ) and expanded its ministry, later renaming the church as " Eagles Nest Cathedral ".< ref name =" GrantBio ">

* Carl Vinson, Congressman, was from Milledgeville.

" Jackson closed his cable by stating that he could not continue his service as an Associate Justice under Vinson if an associate " had something on ", which would disqualify him from serving, or if he, Truman, regarded Jackson ’ s opinion in the Jewell Ridge case as a " gratuitous insult " to Justice Black.

At the highest point is Mount Vinson, which was named in 2006 after Carl Vinson, long-time member of the U. S. Congress from the state of Georgia.

The massif comprises both the high central Vinson Plateau with its few peaks rising to over, and several side ridges mostly trending southwest or northeast from the plateau.

A high mountain, provisionally known as ' Vinson ', was long suspected to be in this part of West Antarctica, but it was not actually seen until January 1958, when it was spotted by US Navy aircraft from Byrd Station.

Multiple guide companies offer guided expeditions to Vinson, at a typical cost of around $ 30, 000 per person, including transportation to Antarctica from Chile.

Beginning in 1980, ZOG was ported from DEC VAX version ( written in an experimental language called " L *") to the Pascal-based Three Rivers PERQ workstation and was used for a shipwide local area network on the American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.

Carl Vinson ( November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981 ) was a United States Representative from Georgia.

Vinson was born in Baldwin County, Georgia, attended Georgia Military College, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University in 1902.

Vinson served as a Representative from November 3, 1914, to January 3, 1965.

Vinson did not seek re-election in 1964 and retired from Congress in January 1965.

Vinson did not have children, but his grandnephew, Sam Nunn, served as a Senator from Georgia for more than 24 years.

Expedition leader, Nicholas Clinch wrote a letter to Eddie Bauer from Vinson Camp II stating

In 1946, Vinson resigned from the Treasury to be appointed Chief Justice of the United States by Truman ; the Senate confirmed him by voice vote on June 20 of that year ( E. H. Moore had expressed opposition but was not present for the vote ).

When Secretary of State Dean Acheson came under fire from congressional Republicans for being " soft on communism " at the end of 1950 Vinson was briefly mentioned as the new Secretary of State and Dean Acheson as the new Chief Justice.

Frederick M. Vinson died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack early on the morning of September 8, 1953 ; his body is interred in Pinehill Cemetery, Louisa, Kentucky.

Like the nearby Mount Vinson, the mountain may be accessed by the means of a 6-hour flight from Punta Arenas, Chile to Union Glacier Camp followed by a 200 km flight on a ski plane to the base of the mountain.

* Gary Vinson appeared four times in different roles between 1958 and 1961: " Four Guns and a Prayer ", " The Devil's Spawn " ( as Bud Donner ), " The Invaders " and " Cousin from Atlanta ".

The official title of this officer was changed from " Reporter " to " Reporter of Decisions " in 1953, to clarify the duties of the office at the request of Reporter Walter Wyatt with the authorization of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson.

Besides Borgnine, the only actors from the dramatic pilot who made it to the series were Gary Vinson as Quartermaster George " Christy " Christopher, who ends up becoming a devoted family man, Edson Stroll as Gunner's Mate Virgil Edwards, the handsome lover boy of the crew, and John Wright as Radioman Willy Moss, a good-natured Southerner who operates the crew's still ( a carryover from the original dramatic pilot ).