About Aimée Groth
Former Super Lawyers associate editor Aimée Groth is currently a partner at HolacracyOne, an organizational design firm that helps companies become more agile and human-centered. A one-time technology journalist who covered Silicon Valley culture for Quartz, she also served as a senior editor at Business Insider. In 2017, Simon & Schuster published her book The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh’s Zapponian Utopia, which Kirkus Reviews called “An intriguing business/sociological chronicle with wider implications for modern corporate practices.”
Articles written by Aimée Groth
A Novel Idea
The pseudonymous Will Nathan wrote a book about lawyers with no moral limitsUnder the pseudonym Will Nathan (rumored to be William McGrane) and the protection of Hustler v. Falwell, a San Francisco lawyer published Book of Business: A Novel of the Law, a glimpse into the dark world of high-stakes civil litigation. His book shines an unflattering light onto “vicious” attorneys whose careers are driven by money, sex and pride. To guard the author from those who sue best, his publisher, the Philadelphian Press, bought $3 million of MediaPro Insurance before the book …
Don't Vote for Pedro
Chris Gramiccioni and Deborah Goldklang bonded over their mutual disdain for the Red SoxChris Gramiccioni and Deborah Goldklang kept their inter-office relationship under wraps for weeks—until their boss, U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, saw them in The New York Times. “I invited Chris to game seven of the 2003 Yankees-Red Sox playoffs, and we had very good seats,” says Goldklang, whose father is a limited partner in the New York Yankees organization. “When Pedro Martinez was pulled, the Associated Press took a photo of us heckling him. It was picked up from The New York …
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Jeff McKenzie conquers Kilimanjaro for charityJeff McKenzie has a thirst for adventure. He’s always looking for a new experience––“something completely different from the practice of law.” Well, you can’t get much farther away from a law office than the majestic 19,000-foot peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Three years ago, the Louisville corporate attorney was one of approximately 15,000 climbers to challenge the world’s tallest freestanding mountain—and one of only about 6,000 to reach the summit. To prepare for the expedition, …
Man on a Mission
Three years ago, interim U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman didn’t know that human trafficking existed in the United States. Now he is one of the country’s most ambitious federal prosecutors for labor and sex trafficking crimes. “It’s a form of modern-day slavery,” Schlozman says. “The idea that it happens in the 21st century is outrageous.” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appointed Schlozman, 35, to U.S. Attorney of the Western District of Missouri on March 25, 2006. Just …
Rhode Scholar
Susan Rhode didn’t start out thinking she’d be a lawyer.The stage was her original destiny. But after graduating from the University of North Dakota with master’s degrees in speech and theater, and heading to Winnipeg to audition for plays, she “got hungry real fast” and set her sights elsewhere. She found a steady paycheck as a junior high and high school teacher.When she moved to Minneapolis a few years later, she wasn’t licensed to teach in the U.S., so she took a job as an …
Minnesota Lawrence Preston
John Koneck would like to be busting heads as a pro football player. “I’m competitive by nature,” says Koneck, 52. “But if you take a look at me, you’ll see why I couldn’t have done that.” Lacking the mesomorphic physique of a professional athlete, he became a real estate and bankruptcy attorney instead. And he’s darn good at it –– he’s the second top vote-getting Minnesota Super Lawyer. Koneck’s biography on the Fredrikson & Byron Web site is so long, one risks …
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