Miriam Rozen

June 20, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

After nearly 20 years of appeals, Texas death row inmate Thomas Miller-El persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13 to overturn his conviction because of the racial bias that tainted the selection of the jury in his murder trial.

By Tony Mauro, Miriam Rozen and John Council

11 minute read

December 20, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

January 23, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Houston-based Andrews Kurth has negotiated a tentative agreement to settle all claims brought against the firm by its former client Enron Corp. and the bankrupt Houston energy company's Committee of Unsecured Creditors. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez of the Southern District of New York, who is presiding over Enron's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, must approve the proposed deal before it becomes final. Under the proposed settlement terms, Andrews Kurth will pay $18.5 million in cash to Enron.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 24, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

As President Bush's staff secretary, Harriet Miers acts as the ultimate gatekeeper for what crosses the desk of the nation's commander in chief. At 57, the former co-managing partner of Locke Liddell & Sapp personally controls the flow of written information into the Oval Office. Without Miers' stamp of approval, no piece of paper gets forwarded to the president or included in his nightly briefing books.

By Miriam Rozen

14 minute read

March 06, 2007 | Law.com

The dismantling of Jenkens & Gilchrist has been in the works for a while, ever since the firm suffered hits to its image and lawyer count in the wake of troubles with its Chicago-based tax practice. What's unusual is management's apparently generous and helpful attitude toward the recent wave of attorney defections from the firm. Several lawyers from branch offices say they participated in negotiations with other firms with the blessing and support of leadership at Jenkens.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

12 minute read

September 13, 2006 | Law.com

DOJ lawyers filed a motion last week to recover over $40 million from the estate of Kenneth Lay, the former Enron chairman who was convicted of fraud in May but died before his sentencing. "They must be so frustrated that he passed away," says Nancy Rapoport, a law professor who has written extensively on Enron. That frustration, she says, probably led the government to challenge the long-established federal court practice of tossing convictions of criminal defendants who die while their appeal is pending.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read

March 17, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Before Cisco Systems Inc. in-house lawyer Richard Frenkel outed himself in February as the Patent Troll Tracker blogger, he posted blog entries in October 2007 that alleged two East Texas lawyers conspired with the Eastern District Clerk's Office to alter the filing date of an infringement suit. That suit was filed against Frenkel's employer, Cisco.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, John Council and Miriam Rozen

13 minute read

May 19, 2006 | Law.com

A T-38 Talon training jet in Dallas' Frontiers of Flight Museum is central to a high-flying legal dispute. H. Ross Perot Jr. -- son of famous Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot Sr. -- tried to get the government to let him fly the plane as an operable museum centerpiece, becoming the subject of a probe in the process. Now Perot and others are suing Hughes & Luce, which advised them on the plane purchase, and Hughes & Luce partner Stephen G. Gleboff, who initially represented Perot's interests.

By Miriam Rozen

15 minute read

June 11, 2007 | Law.com

A Texas judge has signed an order dismissing with prejudice a messy set of claims between Fred Baron and the firm he founded, Dallas-based Baron & Budd. The order stated that Baron and his wife Lisa Blue had entered into a settlement agreement with firm co-founder Russell Budd, the firm and others named in the litigation. Baron and Blue had alleged that the defendants conspired to deny them payments under a series of complex agreements that resulted in the sale of their equity interest in the firm to Budd.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

September 13, 2007 | Law.com

Nearly five months after signing a preliminary term sheet to merge, Locke Liddell & Sapp and Lord, Bissell & Brook announced Wednesday that the firms' lawyers have voted to approve the marriage. The new firm will be called Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. The merger, effective Oct. 2, creates a firm with about 700 lawyers, offices in 11 cities and gross revenues of approximately $400 million. "This merger fits into our strategic plan to grow," says Locke Liddell managing partner Jerry Clements.

By Miriam Rozen

3 minute read