About Amy White
Amy White is a former senior editor at Super Lawyers having been with the magazine for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a sports columnist and feature writer for a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Her freelance work can be found in Delaware Today Magazine, Mainline Today, Brandywine Hunt, Philadelphia Style and Delaware Beach Life. She is an adjunct professor of writing at the University of Delaware, where she graduated with a journalism degree. She also holds an MFA in publishing and creative writing from Rosemont College and has served as line editor on poetry anthologies and works of contemporary fiction. She loves baseball, bikes, books and coffee.
Articles written by Amy White
Finding the After
How April Jones helps everyone around her get to their next best lifeApril Jones had a pretty simple wish list: Cat. Condo. Convertible. Not necessarily in that order. “A condo with a fireplace,” she clarifies, then shrugs. “It was the ’90s. Condos were all the rage.” Jones, all cheekbones, laughs deep and laughs often as she recounts the time, as a young attorney in San Francisco, she tried to hide her second pregnancy from the firm’s partners until she was ready to tell them. She’d confidently bound up the stairs to keep pace with them. “The …
'That's What I'm Going To Do'
Five New Jersey attorneys on what it was like for women in the law in the 1970s—and beyondMichele Donato was the first woman to graduate from Rutgers College. She was also one of New Jersey’s first female land use attorneys, as well as the first female general counsel for New Jersey Planning Officials. In practice since 1977, Donato says she is happily surprised by the state of women in the law today. “It used to be, in the early days, I’d go to a bar association function and there’s maybe three other women, and every male lawyer is trying to pick you up,” she says. …
From Iraq, With 50 Words for Love
How Nadine Alsaadi’s deep dive into Arabic literature fuels her business lit careerOnce, when Nadine Alsaadi was curled up with an English-language romance novel, she noticed that the word “love” was used hundreds of times. Same word over and over: love, love, love. Alsaadi’s first language is Arabic, and the repetition frustrated her. Love? What kind of love? And in what situation? In Arabic, hubb is the most common translation for love; but there’s also hawa, which is like meet-cute; ishq is intense passion to one’s beloved; and onward to the tune of almost 50 …
The Heart to Serve
Kyli Willis brings a history of helping to her family law practiceKyli Willis had a plan. She was going to graduate college with a degree in criminal justice and head straight to law school. But then as graduation neared her senior year, she experienced the kind of loss that can send everything off track. “I was grieving in a really bad way,” she says. “My mental and emotional health were not in a place where I’d be successful academically. In an effort to not screw up my future, I had to take a break.” As Willis considered her next steps, she …
This Side of Terminal 5
Immigration attorney Fiona McEntee wants others to see what she seesIn late 2016, Fiona McEntee and her two children, Rose and Perry, breezed through O’Hare International Airport. The trio had just arrived back in Chicago after visiting McEntee’s family in her native Ireland. They deplaned, grabbed their luggage, headed to ground transportation, and exited through the doors in a matter of minutes. It was that routine sequence that the immigration lawyer and founder of McEntee Law Group couldn’t stop thinking about weeks later when she found herself back …
Twenty and Change
Perennial listees discuss the past two decades of lawFewer trials. Body cams. Same-sex marriage. Virtual hearings. Work-life balance. Electronic filings. Artificial intelligence. The Trump administration. And the “tunnel man.” A lot has happened in the past 20 years that affected law and its practice. We talked to five attorneys about their experiences, and asked them to predict what the future may hold. Path to the Law Michael J. Baxter, Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones; Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Defense; Baltimore: Not …
Looking Back at Leadership
Shelly Dreyer on her time as The Missouri Bar presidentThe last few years of Shelly Dreyer’s career have brought big firsts for the experienced personal injury practitioner. After spending a decade as a partner at a St. Charles County firm—five years of which she also was a part-time municipal judge in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri—and then seven years at a Joplin firm, Dreyer opened her own practice with partner Keegan Tinney in February 2023. “We maintain a very relaxed culture where we don’t micromanage our staff, and we have a lot …
‘The Violation of Their Rights Was Astounding’
How the immigrant car-wash case came to Steve ArensonTo fully understand why, in 2010, Marcos Díaz and Giovanni Paulino showed up at Steve Arenson’s office with a wage-theft case against J.V. Car Wash, you’d have to go back to 1998. It might even make sense to go back to a man hailing a cab outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1987. That man, Joseph T. Arenson, Steve’s father, and a well-known wills and estates lawyer, struck up a conversation with Juan Carlos Castro, the Dominican driver whose cab he happened to hail. By the …
Shah v. The System
Monica Shah is driven to represent those facing down powerful institutionsMonica Shah had a plan. Fresh out of undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, Shah took a business and consulting gig in New York City. Her carefully curated blueprint: Take a year or so to build a solid business foundation, get into law school, then spend her career sharpening a Big Law business litigation practice. Sept. 11, 2001, changed everything. “I was at work in New York that day,” says Shah. “I had the direct experience of being somebody who saw what happened …
Creating Access and Opportunity
Larry Waters Jr. uses his J.D. to make changeLarry Waters Jr. knows that legal issues don’t discriminate. “At a person’s worst moment, no matter who you are—a community member, a local homeowner, a renter, a doctor—when anyone has a problem, they all turn to the same person, whether to get advice or to navigate the system. And that person has a J.D.,” he says. “I saw that having a J.D. would be the biggest platform I could have to make change in whatever community I’m in.” The idea of being a changemaker was …
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