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.
February 08, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Expect No New Interstate Gas Pipelines with No Quorum of FERC CommissionDon't credit or blame all those protestors for the screeching halt that has come to the building of new interstate natural gas pipelines nationwide. Instead, pin responsibility for that likely scenario to the Trump's administration's failure to address a dearth of Washington bureaucrats.
By Miriam Rozen
7 minute read
February 03, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
US Senate Vote Cheers Oil and Gas Industry, Disheartens Transparency AdvocateOil and gas industry cheers were expected after the U.S. Senate, in the early hours of Feb. 3, passed a resolution to prevent what's known as the "resource extraction" regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission going into effect.
By Miriam Rozen
4 minute read
February 02, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Exxon Insists Its Free Speech Case Against Attorneys General Be Heard in Texas CourtExxon Mobil Corp. Wednesday argued that Texas courts had jurisdiction to take up its claims against the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts that they are abusing the corporations' free speech rights and seeking to unreasonably search and seize its business records in pursuing their climate-change litigation against the oil giant.
By Miriam Rozen
6 minute read
February 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Volunteer Lawyers Serving Detainees at DFW Get Financial BoostLawyers volunteering at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport—more than 150 of them—just got a financial boost in the arm.
By Miriam Rozen
11 minute read
February 01, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Biker-Defendant Looks to Remove Waco DA Abel Reyna From the CaseIn the mandamus petition, Broden, who represents one of the indicted bikers, argues that his client will be denied due process unless Reyna is removed from the case. He alleges that the DA has a "huge" financial interest in the bikers' prosecutions.
By Miriam Rozen
15 minute read
January 29, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Amid Chaos, Texas Lawyers Join Pro Bono Response to Refugee BanRoughly 100 Texas lawyers went to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend to help fight President Donald Trump's executive order. Organizers said they would keep up the resistance until everyone has been released.
By Miriam Rozen
6 minute read
January 26, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Baker Botts Highlight Prosecutorial Misconduct AllegationsPro bono appellate criminal defense lawyers from Baker Botts have labeled allegations against their client, Linda Carty, a British woman on death row in Texas, as a "story" that the Harris County District Attorney's Office created.
By Miriam Rozen
14 minute read
January 25, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
Tort Reform Group Aims New Push to Get Legislature to Curb Fees of 'Storm-Chasing' LawyersTexans for Lawsuit Reform's proposal has drawn objections not just from Steve Mostyn but also a Haynes and Boone lawyer.
By Miriam Rozen
6 minute read
January 24, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
All Hat, No Cattle, Leads to $23.1M VerdictAt a four-day trial, Midwestern Cattle, represented by Chris Trowbridge, alleged that the parents and their son engaged in a check-kiting scheme that involved the purchase and sale of cattle — animals , as it was discovered, were fictitious.
By Miriam Rozen
5 minute read
January 23, 2017 | Texas Lawyer
US Supreme Court Denies Texas' Bid to Defend Voter ID LawThe U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision Monday declining to hear Texas' appeal of a lower court's ruling that deemed the state's voter ID law, one of the strictest in the nation, as discriminatory.
By Miriam Rozen
12 minute read
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