Miriam Rozen

July 12, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A plaintiffs attorney doubled down on his allegations with a filing in Austin federal court this week that Jim Harrington, a 43-year veteran civil rights lawyer, used a racial slur against him and should therefore be sanctioned.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Two criminal defense lawyers from Fort Worth and Dallas who represent Mark Hughes, an African-American man identified initially in a Dallas police department tweet as a suspect in the shootings that led to the deaths of five officers this month, want answers from Dallas police officials to multiple questions.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

July 08, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Until the shooting deaths this week of five Dallas police officers, and the wounding of seven others, there had been 14 shootings of law enforcement officers in Texas in 2016. None of those shootings led to deaths. And none involved officers from the Dallas Police Department, according to data that the Texas attorney general's office began collecting from police departments statewide Sept. 1, 2015.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

July 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Marie Munier, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas, earned the dubious distinction of having a 2014 letter she wrote informing a woman she had been erroneously prosecuted and convicted of a drug offense appear on the front cover for The New York Times Magazine issued this week.

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read

July 06, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Option buyers only get to stay in a hotel—then pay room rates—if they guess the Oval Office winner correctly. The SEC has filed an unrelated complaint against two executives and the former director of the ticket-selling company.

By Miriam Rozen

12 minute read

July 05, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Texas health agency released data on the number of abortions taking place in that state, notably, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling striking the Lone Star State's law restricting where and how abortions could take place.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

July 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Houston litigator went to Mount Olympus in Greece for spring, but got snow.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

July 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Hanen issued a sanctions order calling for five years of ethics training for a broad swath of DOJ lawyers May 19, after he concluded that the DOJ lawyers had made intentional misrepresentations to his court in bad faith. But that has not been the only Hanen ruling to generate national press attention.

By Miriam Rozen

15 minute read

July 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

If you want to catch Larry Macon, try looking for the San Antonio lawyer at the finish line of a marathon race.

By Miriam Rozen

12 minute read

June 30, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Two days after a Dallas federal bankruptcy judge ordered former billionaire and Texan Sam Wyly to pay the Internal Revenue Service $1.1 billion, the same judge issued a memorandum allowing him to claim only a $155,000 homestead exemption on his home. Wyly values the home at $12 million and the local tax appraisal district values it at $9 million.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read