Miriam Rozen

December 14, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Tort reformers and trial lawyers have drafted competing wish lists for the 85th legislative session set to begin for Texas lawmakers the second week in January.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

December 13, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

When wealthy people ask jurors to settle their battles, their lawyers run the risk of running headlong into popular sentiment against the "one percent."

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

December 13, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In a terse ruling, a McAllen federal judge described well-known Houston plaintiff lawyer Steve Mostyn's firm and its actions in far from flattering terms. But, significantly, the judge stopped short of sanctioning the Mostyn Law Firm, as an insurance industry defendant had requested.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

December 12, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A Dallas federal judge today canceled a scheduled deposition of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that Exxon Mobil had planned to conduct in the attorney general's climate-change litigation against the oil giant.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

December 08, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an expedited hearing for the Department of Labor in the overtime litigation.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

December 08, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In a scathing 47-page order, a U.S. magistrate judge in Austin granted motions for sanctions against an attorney filed in six cases and awarded $175,672 in fees and expenses.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

December 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

To expand civil legal services for Texans of modest means: Bolster resources at law libraries, collect more information about pro se litigants, and promote technologies that will help make it easier for more people to identify affordable legal counsel.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

December 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was ordered Monday to appear in a Texas federal court to submit to deposition questions asked by Exxon Mobil Corp. lawyers. She may be joined by her New York counterpart, Eric Schneiderman, who also filed motions to quash discovery and dismiss Exxon's complaint against him.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

December 06, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was ordered Monday to appear in a Texas federal court to submit to deposition questions asked by Exxon Mobil Corp. lawyers

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

December 05, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Since the U.S. Department of Labor secured favorable rulings from two federal judges preserving its new fiduciary rule, which is aimed at curbing retirement investment advisers' potential conflicts, many lawyers' eyes are trained on a third judge: U.S. District Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas, before whom a challenge of the proposed regulation is pending.

By Miriam Rozen

9 minute read