Miriam Rozen

July 19, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

Editor's note: Texas Lawyer turned 25 on April 3. To mark our anniversary, each week the editorial department is looking back at the news we covered over the past 25 years and selecting one story to update for readers. This week, reporter Miriam Rozen updates "UT Law School Gets $3.5 Million Bequest," an article from the July 24, 1985, issue of Texas Lawyer.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

August 25, 2009 | The Recorder

Judges and lawyers are using social networking sites in their work, but there are few rules to guide them.

By Miriam Rozen

9 minute read

August 14, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

A month after Vinson & Elkins announced its new pay scale for associates, many associates in Texas don't know yet how much of a raise they will get. Other Texas firms are testing new ways of calculating associate compensation. On the outside, in-house lawyers, recruiters and law schools are trying to determine how the salary increases will change their lives as well.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

October 26, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

If all goes according to plan, on Jan. 16, W. Mark Lanier will begin trying as many as nine Vioxx-related cases - at the same time - before Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee in Atlantic County.

By Miriam Rozen ALM

3 minute read

May 22, 2007 | Law.com

Barring a last-minute court order from a federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the constitutionality of Ordinance 2903, beginning today landlords in Farmers Branch, Texas, will be prohibited from renting to most immigrants who cannot prove their citizenship or legal residency status. The Dallas suburb has hired a trio of firms to defend it, but the Farmers Branch legal team faces a contingent of lawyers from civil rights groups and Texas firms that have deep pockets to pursue the litigation.

By Miriam Rozen and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

12 minute read

December 19, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

White House Counsel Harriet Miers stands out as a lesson about how cruel and venomous politics can get. With neither hard-core conservative nor Ivy League credentials, Miers' short-lived nomination for the nation's highest court taught Americans to think twice about what they will face if they vie for a spot on the national political stage.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

November 24, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

After a 42-day trial and eight-and-a-half days deliberating, a federal jury in Dallas convicted the five individual defendants in United States v. Holy Land Foundation, et al. on charges that they engaged in a conspiracy to help funnel at least $12.4 million to Hamas through a now-defunct Richardson-based Muslim charity.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

November 22, 2010 | Law.com

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has filed a fee application with in U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking $5.47 million in fees and expenses for representing Texas Rangers Baseball Partners in its bankruptcy proceedings. Jeffrey Fine (pictured), a K&L Gates partner in Dallas working on the case for the unsecured creditors committee, says his firm has agreed to cut $5,000 in travel expenses "so long as the other fees are paid.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

July 18, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

With the economic downturn, the number of consumer credit-related suits filed in U.S. District Courts in Texas has steadily increased over the past five years. About 50 percent of Diana Larson's practice is FDCPA suits.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

March 07, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Former Dynegy Inc. senior director of tax planning Jamie Olis has completed his prison time, but his Houston criminal-defense lawyer says he and his firm have yet to be paid in full for Olis' representation. Dynegy maintains it doesn't owe Olis' lawyers more than it already paid, because the oral agreement it had with him is unenforceable based on the statute of frauds. "When a judgment is reversed on appeal on one theory of recovery, a party may seek recovery under an alternative theory that the jury found in its favor at the trial court level," wrote Justice Phylis J. Speedlin (pictured).

By Miriam Rozen

7 minute read