Miriam Rozen
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US Senate Vote Cheers Oil and Gas Industry, Disheartens Transparency Advocate
Oil 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 e... → Read More
Biker-Defendant Looks to Remove Waco DA Abel Reyna From the Case
In 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 t... → Read More
Amid Chaos, Texas Lawyers Join Pro Bono Response to Refugee Ban
Roughly 100 Texas lawyers went to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport over the weekend to help fight President Donald Trump's executive order. Organizers... → Read More
Brownsville Federal Judge Will Reconsider Ethics Training Sanctions for DOJ Lawyers
In an immigration case in a Brownsville, Texas, federal court, which pits Texas and 25 other states against the Obama administration, U.S. Department of Just... → Read More
EEOC Files Race-Bias Claims Against Two Oil-Patch Companies
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a race-based employment discrimination complaint in San Antonio federal court against two oil-patch service... → Read More
Judge Ditches $400M Divorce Judgment as Product of Forum Shopping
A Galveston, Texas, judge tossed a more than $400 million judgment, which an ex-wife had previously won against her former spouse and his family's business, ... → Read More
Texas A&M Launches Solo and Small-Firm Incubator
Texas A&M University School of Law has joined a national trend by providing an incubator program to help graduates transition into solo and small-firm practi... → Read More
Prosecutors Violated Brady Rule, Mikal Watts Alleges
On the first day of what is expected to unfold as his lengthy criminal trial, Mikal Watts, a well-known San Antonio, Texas, plaintiffs lawyer, filed a motion... → Read More
What's in a Word: Attorneys Tangle Over Whether Civil Rights Lawyer Used Slur or 'Border Slang'
A plaintiffs attorney doubled down on his allegations with a filing in Austin federal court this week that Jim Harrington, a 43-year veteran civil rights law... → Read More
The Black, Gun-Toting Man in Dallas PD's Tweet Seeks Answers, Exoneration
Two criminal defense lawyers from Fort Worth and Dallas who represent Mark Hughes, an African-American man identified initially in a Dallas police department... → Read More
Dallas Attack Breaks Pattern Shown in New AG Data
Until the shooting deaths this week of five Dallas police officers, and the wounding of seven others, there had been 14 shootings of law enforcement officers... → Read More
Prosecutor Gets Front-Cover Attention Tracking Down Wrongful Drug Convictions
Marie Munier, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas, earned the dubious distinction of having a 2014 letter she wrote informing a woma... → Read More
Allegedly Bilked Athletes May Recoup Losses From Inauguration Reservations at Trump's DC Hotel—Even if Clinton Wins
Option buyers only get to stay in a hotel—then pay room rates—if they guess the Oval Office winner correctly. The SEC has filed an unrelated complaint against two executives and the former director of the ticket-selling company. → Read More
Texas Abortion Data Disclosed 3 Days After SCOTUS Ruling
Texas health agency released data on the number of abortions taking place in that state, notably, three days after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling s... → Read More
The Judge Who Tried to School the Feds
Hanen issued a sanctions order calling for five years of ethics training for a broad swath of DOJ lawyers May 19, after he concluded that the DOJ lawyers had... → Read More
Guinness World Record Holder Larry Macon Knows How to Go the Distance
If you want to catch Larry Macon, try looking for the San Antonio lawyer at the finish line of a marathon race. → Read More
Bankruptcy Judge Curtails Sam Wyly's Homestead Exemption to $155K
Two days after a Dallas federal bankruptcy judge ordered former billionaire and Texan Sam Wyly to pay the Internal Revenue Service $1.1 billion, the same jud... → Read More
Text Message About Johnny Football Benches Local Counsel
If lawyers are going to make a mistake and send a text message to a reporter with attorney-client privileged information, the scenario may play out better fo... → Read More
Local Link With Jurors Helped Underpin $34M Car Seat Verdict, Lawyer Says
A four-day trial in federal court in Tyler,Texas, this month led to a $34.4 million verdict for a young mother from nearby Marshall and her toddler son, who ... → Read More
Baker Botts Reporting Triggers SEC's Probe into Investment Adviser with NFL & MLB Clients
Shortly after the Super Bowl last February, two partners in Houston's Baker Botts and principals with their client, a Dallas-based investment advisory firm, ... → Read More