Miriam Rozen

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

October 19, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

Thirteen former Dallas Bar Association presidents and the organization's current president Tim W. Mountz have offered their support to President George W. Bush's controversial nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to become a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

January 19, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Half of the 48 lawyers at Dallas' Touchstone, Bernays, Johnston, Beall & Smith plan to leave the firm at the end of January to open their own legal shop. "We wanted to build a firm of our own," says Gregory Ave, a Touchstone Bernays partner who, along with seven other partners and 16 associates, is leaving to form Walters, Balido & Crain.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

August 15, 2008 | Law.com

The five individual defendants in United States v. Holy Land Foundation, et al. have filed an emergency motion asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a July 30 decision in which a federal judge ruled that their double-jeopardy claims were frivolous and denied them a stay to appeal his ruling. Prosecutors allege the defendants -- all of whom formerly worked for HLF, a now-defunct Texas-based Muslim charity -- used the organization to help fund terrorists in the West Bank and Gaza.

By Miriam Rozen

8 minute read

January 24, 2011 | Law.com

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the constitutionality of the University of Texas at Austin's consideration of race in its admissions process in 2008 — the year two white applicants denied admission allege racial considerations disadvantaged them. Patricia "Patti" Ohlendorf (pictured) is vice president for legal affairs at UT.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

May 17, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

When the Dallas Mavericks lost twice to the Sacramento Kings at the American Airlines Center during the NBA`s Western Conference semifinals, fans weren`t referring to a literal stench when griping about the stinking games. Keith Shuley, a partner and environmental expert in the Austin office of Dallas` Hughes & Luce, can attest to that.

By MIRIAM ROZEN

9 minute read