Miriam Rozen

October 05, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Deep-fried butter. Deep-fried peaches and cream. Deep-fried yams. These are just some of the new cardiac-challenging concoctions at the State Fair of Texas, which opened Sept. 25 and closes Oct. 18. But that isn't all that's new this year at the annual outdoor party. On Sept. 9, lawyer Craig Woodcook was selected to head the Chairman's Task Force for the fair.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

January 02, 2002 | National Law Journal

The Holy Land Foundation, accused of supporting terrorism by the White House, fails to show for depositions in a libel case the foundation was prosecuting against the Dallas Morning News over previous allegations of connections to terrorism.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

September 07, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

The party is over, and fewer people are invited, anyway. That's the blunt message for recent summer associates at BigTex firms and 2010 wannabe summer associates. Michelle Suarez, deputy managing partner for the Dallas office of Patton Boggs, says the firm already has scaled back from nine to seven the number of law schools its recruiters plan to visit to find 2010 summer associate hires.

By Jeanne Graham and Miriam Rozen

16 minute read

December 04, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

As general counsel of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Lou Bright knows that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Granholm v. Heald likely will alter the world of state liquor regulators dramatically over the next few years and he'll have to defend his agency's rules. In Granholm, a 5-4 court wrote that state laws that make it more difficult for out-of-state wineries to obtain permits and licenses from an in-state liquor regulatory agency are unconstitutional.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

September 30, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Jamie Leigh Jones wanted to tell a jury about the hell she went through while working in Iraq from the beginning — now a panel of 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges has cleared the way for her to do just that.

By Miriam Rozen

12 minute read

May 05, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Although Dan Morales lives in a home valued at $1.2 million in the scenic hills of West Austin, the former Texas attorney general asked a federal judge on April 25 to appoint a federal public defender to represent him on federal charges.

By Miriam Rozen, Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Mary Alice Robbins

11 minute read

August 13, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

The five individual defendants in United States v. Holy Land Foundation, et al. have filed an emergency motion asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a July 30 decision in which U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis ruled that their double-jeopardy claims were frivolous and denied them a stay to appeal his ruling.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

January 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Jenkens & Gilchrist management is talking with Hunton & Williams management about a substantial number of lawyers from Jenkens' Dallas office laterally moving to Hunton & Williams' Dallas office, say some sources. A Jenkens partner says the firm is talking with multiple firms about multiple scenarios.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

February 02, 2007 | Law.com

By next month, Jenkens & Gilchrist's Dallas office may look a bit different -- or a lot different, depending on who you ask. Currently, that office employs the majority of the firm's lawyers. But, according to various sources, Jenkens management is talking with Hunton & Williams about a substantial number of lawyers from Jenkens' Dallas office moving to Hunton & Williams. "It's going to be more than 12 but less than 100," says a Hunton & Williams partner.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

December 15, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Mike Leach, head football coach at Texas Tech University, stands as inspiration to every sports-star hopeful who took the bar exam — a rite of passage Leach avoided. He graduated in the top third of his class at Pepperdine University School of Law then, despite never having played college football himself, built a career as a football coach and earned national attention for his transformation of Texas Tech into a powerhouse.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read