Miriam Rozen

May 11, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A federal court battle that began when 44 of 134 hair removal lasers were deemed lost has led to sanctions against a client of Dallas' Friedman & Feiger.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

May 11, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A Dallas federal bankruptcy judge sided with the IRS and against onetime Texas billionaire Sam Wyly.

By Miriam Rozen

9 minute read

May 06, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. Senior District Judge David Ezra in Austin vacated his previous Rule 11 sanctions order against plaintiffs and their former lawyer.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

May 06, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In Waco, after two mediation sessions but before a trial, a family received a court-approved settlement of $27.5 million from Sanderson Farms, a poultry company. The family brought claims against Sanderson Farms for injuries its mother and baby suffered in a car crash with a vehicle owned by the company and driven by its employee.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

May 05, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Royal Mullins convicted of murder in shooting death of Curtis "Topper" Gray, a 50-year-old Greenville resident. "Every murder is a tragedy, but in this case Royal Mullins had reason," the local newspaper reported Mullins defense lawyer told the jury. "You would have hoped someone had done it for you."

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

May 05, 2016 | The American Lawyer

The firm says that eight of its top 15 clients, as measured by revenue generated for the firm, are in the tech sector.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

May 04, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A paraplegic plaintiff pursuing a claim filed under the American with Disabilities Act has filed a motion to disqualify well-known Austin civil rights lawyer James Harrington, who represents the defendants.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

May 03, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A Dallas jury began deliberating in late April, took a weekend break, and then returned on Monday, May 2 to deliver a $10.9 million verdict against the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma for its alleged role in a 2013 crash of a charter bus.

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

May 02, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In February 2013, Mikal Watts flew to Miami Beach to attend an American Association for Justice convention. In two weeks' time, he expected to appear in the courtroom as the leader of a legal team opposing BP at a federal civil trial set to determine the energy company's liabilities for the 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill.

By Miriam Rozen

25 minute read

April 29, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Since his own legal troubles began last summer, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has not received the love –specifically, in the form of cash contributions to his officeholder's account--from big Texas law firms that his predecessor netted.

By Miriam Rozen

16 minute read