Miriam Rozen

April 29, 2005 | Law.com

The Liberty Legal Institute's latest battle is with the Plano Independent School District over a third-grade pupil's right to pass out candy cane pens bearing religious messages. But the Texas non-profit has a not-so-secret weapon: Their clients' claims have triggered six U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigations in the past three years, more than one-fourth of the DOJ's religious freedom cases in that time period. "We've figured out a system," says the group's chief counsel.

By Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

January 02, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Mike Gruber and some other former Godwin Gruber lawyers will take a majority of their existing clients with them to their new firm -- Gruber Hurst Johansen & Hail -- including Staubach & Co., Elk Corp. and Kaye/Bassman International Corp., Gruber says. But Halliburton Corp., a longtime Godwin Gruber client, will remain with Godwin's new firm, Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

June 05, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

When the judge instructed jurors in the criminal case of former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling, he told the panel to consider the so-called "ostrich" rule. Juror Wendy Vaughan says some of the jurors who returned guilty verdicts referred to the instruction as the "head in the sand rule." But Vaughan says the willful-blindness instruction was not key to the final results of the jury's deliberations.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

October 23, 2007 | Law.com

A mistrial, due to a jury deadlock, has been declared in the federal trial over allegations that the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation charity funded terrorist organization Hamas. The HLF trial raised a number of difficult legal issues involving Middle Eastern politics, witnesses from other countries, American anti-terrorism laws and more than a decade worth of transcripts of conversations in multiple languages that the U.S. government had recorded. Prosecutors have said they plan to retry the case.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

March 21, 2011 | Law.com

Taking advantage of the demise of Howrey, Winston & Strawn opened a Houston office on Wednesday staffed by most of the lawyers who had worked in Howrey's Houston office. Howrey's Houston office managing partner Stephen Cagle says Winston had extended offers to all of the lawyers in his office.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

September 15, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Process servers rarely stand at the center of constitutional debates or get into tussles with judges. But the Certified Civil Process Servers Association of Texas (CCPSAT), an Austin-based nonprofit, changed all that. On Sept. 5, CCPSAT filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western of Texas in Austin, seeking to enjoin the Texas Supreme Court from creating or maintaining any administrative board to regulate and discipline process servers.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

March 07, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Three partners and five associates have left Dallas-based Godwin Pappas Langley Ronquillo to form Langley Weinstein Hamel.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

October 24, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Texas energy lawyers recently worked on a deal to ship the first Libyan crude oil to the United States in more than 20 years.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

June 15, 2005 | Law.com

By Miriam Rozen

14 minute read

September 27, 2004 | Texas Lawyer

The Bar's Committee for Legal Services for the Poor for Criminal Matters is looking for state habeas petitions "that no reasonable person could believe were good," and committee members put the spotlight on a 2000 death row case.

By Miriam Rozen

17 minute read