Miriam Rozen

January 23, 2006 | Law.com

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. The eight departing partners, all litigators who mainly practice insurance defense, refer to themselves as "The 40 Somethings," says Gregory Ave, who will be the managing partner of Walters, Balido & Crain. Touchstone Bernays' managing partner, Sidney H. Davis Jr., says news of the departures came as a shock to him.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

January 18, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

San Francisco-based Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold — with a new office in Houston — now has three Texas offices.

By Miriam Rozen

2 minute read

March 06, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

By Miriam Rozen

4 minute read

August 11, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

As of June 30, Haynes and Boone had raised $147,000 for President Bush, placing the firm as the fourth-largest contributor to Bush's campaign among organizations in the nation and the top law firm contributor in Texas to any presidential political candidate ever.

By Miriam Rozen

6 minute read

October 19, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

Senior U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice (pictured), whose rulings led to prison reforms in Texas and the desegregation of the state's public schools, died Oct. 13 at the age of 89. Texas Lawyer reporter Miriam Rozen asked lawyers who knew Justice to share some of their memories about him.

By Miriam Rozen

5 minute read

December 01, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Nearly two years after Enron Corp. filed a Chapter 11 in the wake of a massive drop in its stock price, a bankruptcy examiner's fourth and final report concludes that outside lawyers at Vinson & Elkins and Andrews & Kurth may have been negligent or may have aided and abetted Enron officers in breaching their fiduciary duties to the battered company.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

11 minute read

March 13, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

A former Court of Criminal Appeals judge will face off against a current CCA law clerk in the November battle for a trial court bench in the state capital.

By Mary Alice Robbins, John Council, Miriam Rozen and Mark Donald

15 minute read

November 19, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Around 8:20 on the evening of Sept. 25, shortly before the state of Texas executed Michael Wayne Richard, the convicted murderer uttered his last words: �I guess this is it.� But Richard�s death, rather than bringing closure, created a controversy that continues with no end in sight.

By Miriam Rozen

27 minute read

January 21, 2003 | Law.com

By Miriam Rozen

28 minute read

January 30, 2006 | Law.com

As the long-awaited trial of former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling gets underway, thousands of ex-employees want to know who to blame for their misfortune, while business executives look to the case to determine how a company as large and innovative as Enron could sink in a wave of near-worthless stock. It may not be the single most important trial to ever occur in Houston, but its significance goes far beyond the fate of Lay and Skilling, who face fraud and conspiracy charges.

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Miriam Rozen

21 minute read