Miriam Rozen

April 12, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

M. Scott Barnard has replaced managing partner J. Kenneth Menges Jr., who served in that role for 17 years, the firm said Wednesday.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

April 12, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

M. Scott Barnard has replaced managing partner J. Kenneth Menges Jr., who served in that role for 17 years, the firm said Wednesday.

By Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

April 06, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

One defendant settled for $1.2 million. Then, following a one and a half week hearing, a panel of three binding arbitration judges in a 2-to-1 ruling ordered a nonsettling defendant pay $18.1 million in damages.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

April 06, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

One defendant settled for $1.2 million. Then, following a one and a half week hearing, a panel of three binding arbitration judges in a 2-to-1 ruling ordered a nonsettling defendant pay $18.1 million in damages.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

April 05, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

"I have 116 lawyers at this firm. They need to feed their families," says Steve Susman.

By Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

April 05, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

"I have 116 lawyers at this firm. They need to feed their families," says Steve Susman.

By Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

April 03, 2017 | National Law Journal

With climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

April 03, 2017 | National Law Journal

With climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.

By Miriam Rozen

10 minute read

April 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The chances of success are narrow for lawyers who seek to switch from representing corporate energy clients to pursuing environmental and climate change advocacy. "There are a lot of trust issues that arise," said Lucy Deakins, a partner in Denver's Dunsing & Deakins, and former associate for Fulbright & Jaworski (now, Norton Rose Fulbright) who has failed to make such a transition, despite repeated attempts to do so. Some lawyers, including Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at EarthJustice and Nada Culver, senior counsel for The Wilderness Society, have overcome hurdles and won environmental advocacy jobs, despite having toiled for years in the corporate world. But they succeeded at that switch only after years of trying.

By Miriam Rozen

32 minute read

March 31, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The chances of success are narrow for lawyers who seek to switch from representing corporate energy clients to pursuing environmental and climate change advocacy. "There are a lot of trust issues that arise," said Lucy Deakins, a partner in Denver's Dunsing & Deakins, and former associate for Fulbright & Jaworski (now, Norton Rose Fulbright) who has failed to make such a transition, despite repeated attempts to do so. Some lawyers, including Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at EarthJustice and Nada Culver, senior counsel for The Wilderness Society, have overcome hurdles and won environmental advocacy jobs, despite having toiled for years in the corporate world. But they succeeded at that switch only after years of trying.

By Miriam Rozen

33 minute read