Miriam Rozen covers the business of law and focuses on how lawyers preserve and expand their client roster. Contact her at [email protected]. Twitter: @MiriamRozen.
April 12, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Akin Gump's Hometown Dallas Office Gets New LeaderM. Scott Barnard has replaced managing partner J. Kenneth Menges Jr., who served in that role for 17 years, the firm said Wednesday.
By Miriam Rozen
5 minute read
April 12, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Akin Gump's Hometown Dallas Office Gets New LeaderM. Scott Barnard has replaced managing partner J. Kenneth Menges Jr., who served in that role for 17 years, the firm said Wednesday.
By Miriam Rozen
13 minute read
April 06, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
When Minutes Are Worth Millions — Timing of Pre-Hearing Settlement Can Mean a LotOne defendant settled for $1.2 million. Then, following a one and a half week hearing, a panel of three binding arbitration judges in a 2-to-1 ruling ordered a nonsettling defendant pay $18.1 million in damages.
By Miriam Rozen
3 minute read
April 06, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
When Minutes Are Worth Millions — Timing of Pre-Hearing Settlement Can Mean a LotOne defendant settled for $1.2 million. Then, following a one and a half week hearing, a panel of three binding arbitration judges in a 2-to-1 ruling ordered a nonsettling defendant pay $18.1 million in damages.
By Miriam Rozen
7 minute read
April 05, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Susman Godfrey Rethinks Contingency Model, Looks to Oil and Gas Clients"I have 116 lawyers at this firm. They need to feed their families," says Steve Susman.
By Miriam Rozen
13 minute read
April 05, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Susman Godfrey Rethinks Contingency Model, Looks to Oil and Gas Clients"I have 116 lawyers at this firm. They need to feed their families," says Steve Susman.
By Miriam Rozen
13 minute read
April 03, 2017 | National Law Journal
Veterans of Past EPA Battles Eye Trump's Climate MovesWith climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.
By Miriam Rozen
5 minute read
April 03, 2017 | National Law Journal
Veterans of Past EPA Battles Eye Trump's Climate MovesWith climate change poised to fall off of the Environmental Protection Agency's agenda under President Donald Trump, one group is paying particularly close attention: the lawyers who fought over putting climate on the agency's agenda in the first place.
By Miriam Rozen
10 minute read
April 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Trust a Roadblock for Ex-Energy Attorneys Seeking to Switch SidesThe chances of success are narrow for lawyers who seek to switch from representing corporate energy clients to pursuing environmental and climate change advocacy. "There are a lot of trust issues that arise," said Lucy Deakins, a partner in Denver's Dunsing & Deakins, and former associate for Fulbright & Jaworski (now, Norton Rose Fulbright) who has failed to make such a transition, despite repeated attempts to do so. Some lawyers, including Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at EarthJustice and Nada Culver, senior counsel for The Wilderness Society, have overcome hurdles and won environmental advocacy jobs, despite having toiled for years in the corporate world. But they succeeded at that switch only after years of trying.
By Miriam Rozen
32 minute read
March 31, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Trust a Roadblock for Ex-Energy Attorneys Seeking to Switch SidesThe chances of success are narrow for lawyers who seek to switch from representing corporate energy clients to pursuing environmental and climate change advocacy. "There are a lot of trust issues that arise," said Lucy Deakins, a partner in Denver's Dunsing & Deakins, and former associate for Fulbright & Jaworski (now, Norton Rose Fulbright) who has failed to make such a transition, despite repeated attempts to do so. Some lawyers, including Michael Freeman, a staff attorney at EarthJustice and Nada Culver, senior counsel for The Wilderness Society, have overcome hurdles and won environmental advocacy jobs, despite having toiled for years in the corporate world. But they succeeded at that switch only after years of trying.
By Miriam Rozen
33 minute read
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