Super Lawyers contributing authors

In addition to the Super Lawyers editorial staff, many professional journalists, legal writers and the top attorneys that have made our Super Lawyers lists have contributed stories and legal articles and resources content to SuperLawyers.com. Learn more by visiting our About Super Lawyers page.

Rachel Cernasky

Rachel Cernasky is a freelance journalist who primarily covers the environment, social justice and nutrition. Her work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Grist, The Christian Science Monitor, 5280 and others.

Riley Beggin

Riley Beggin is a freelance journalist for Super Lawyers. She has a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri, and is a watchdog reporter with Bridge Magazine. She has previously worked for NPR, KBIA, ABC News, and Southern California Public Radio.

RJ Smith

RJ Smith has been an editor for Los Angeles Magazine and The Village Voice, and a contributor to Spin and Details. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Elle, GQ, Grand Royal and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of four books, including The One: The Life and Music of James Brown and the upcoming Chuck Berry: An American Life. A former Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute and Community Scholar at USC, Smith lives in Los Angeles.

Ron S. Doyle

Ron S. Doyle is a Colorado-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in 5280, Bicycling, Backpacker, Psychology Today, Westword, and many more. He is currently the producer of The Narrators, an award-winning storytelling show and podcast in Denver. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder and a master’s degree in communications from the University of Denver.

Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson is a semi-retired journalist who lives in Port Townsend, Washington. Over the course of his 30 years at The Seattle Times, Ross covered politics, courts and natural resources and won a number of awards, including a 1990 Pulitzer for coverage of the Valdez Oil Spill. In more recent years, he has written for Super Lawyers and Postalley.org in Seattle, and is a founding member of Rainshadow Journal, a journalism site based in Port Townsend.

Steph Weber

Steph Weber is an award-winning journalist specializing in healthcare, business, and law. She has written for Physicians Practice, Medscape, and Rheumatology Network and created content for several other industry publications, companies, and colleges. As a frequent Super Lawyers contributor, she enjoys drilling down complex legal topics into bite-sized, actionable advice for readers and interviewing the nation's leading attorney voices, highlighting their most memorable achievements and lessons learned. She lives in Northern Indiana.

Stephanie Hunt

Stephanie Hunt is a writer/editor based in Charleston, SC, with more than 25 years experience writing features, profiles and essays for numerous publications. In addition to being a regular contributor to Super Lawyer, she is Editor at Large for Charleston Magazine, and writes regularly for Veranda, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Faith & Leadership (Duke University), LUXE, and is a stringer for the Washington Post. An avid cyclist and conservationist, she is a graduate of Duke University and Vanderbilt Divinity School, and the mother of three girls.

Steve Knopper

Steve Knopper is a Billboard editor at large, former Rolling Stone contributing editor, contributor to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, GQ and many other publications, and the author of two books: Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age and MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson. A longtime Super Lawyers contributor, he has written numerous oral histories, including one about civil rights attorneys in Alabama in the 1950s and '60s, and another on the pioneering wave of women attorneys in Southern California in the 1970s. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Super Lawyers staff

Super Lawyers articles and stories are assigned, edited and fact-checked using the highest journalistic standards—as evidenced by the dozens of awards we’ve won from the Society of Professional Journalists and other industry organizations. Attorneys who are consulted and interviewed for these stories are all from the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. For details on the Super Lawyers selection process, see here.

Susan G. Hauser

Susan G. Hauser is a Portland writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People, O, and many other publications. She holds a B.A. in English from Portland State University and an M.A. in Near Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Chicago. 

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