Miriam Rozen

December 05, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Greg Gegenheimer, an Austin solo practitioner, on Monday filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against members of the board of directors of the State Bar of Texas, alleging they have violated the Equal Protection Clause of the constitution by maintaining a race- and sex-based quota scheme for the composition of their panel.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

Geoffrey Harrison minces few words when he describes proponents of a petition to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, which grants equal protections to LGBT individuals.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

December 05, 2016 | National Law Journal

While politicians may jawbone about making economic gains for working folks, Lucy Tufts, a partner at Mobile, Alabama's Cunningham Bounds has achieved precisely that through recent courtroom ­wins.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

November 30, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Few would consider $2.44 million and $440,000 in attorney fees in a prisoner's rights case as a bad haul for a newcomer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Following her first appearance there, Christine Stetson, an associate in Beaumont's Bernsen Law Firm, bolstered the odds that her clients, family members of detainee who died in an Orange County, Texas, jail, will win a final judgment of that size.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

November 29, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

On Dec. 5, a trial is scheduled to start before U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas to settle a dispute between two alcohol distilling companies, which each claim ownership to trademarks with the word "cowboy" as part of each of their marks.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

November 28, 2016 | National Law Journal

Even a labor lawyer who typically represents employers expressed surprise about the pre-Thanksgiving ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant.

By Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

November 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has asked U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade of the Northern District of Texas to vacate his order requiring her to appear in a Dallas courtroom to submit to deposition questions posted by Exxon Mobil Corp. lawyers.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

November 28, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Even a labor lawyer who typically represents employers expressed surprise about the pre-Thanksgiving ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant. Mazzant, who presides in a Sherman, Texas, courtroom, granted Texas and other states their request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Obama administration's proposed regulatory revisions that would have doubled for most employees the salary threshold for overtime pay.

By Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

November 23, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the Obama administration's proposed regulatory revisions that would have doubled for most employees the salary threshold for overtime pay.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

November 22, 2016 | National Law Journal

A Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the Obama administration's proposed regulatory revisions that would have doubled for most employees the salary threshold for overtime pay.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read