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
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 …
Be a Joiner
From Saudi Arabia to Utah, Aline Longstaff never stops learningNot many people can say that they’re the only one with a particular identity. But in the case of Aline Longstaff, she might be the only Tongan-American Utahn who grew up in Saudi Arabia. “It’s kind of my superpower, this weird background,” says Longstaff, with Snell & Wilmer in Salt Lake City. “It lends perspective. I’m able to relate to people in ways that build common ground. “ Longstaff lived in Saudi Arabia until she was 18, and she still considers it her “home base.” …
Looking to the Future and Seeing AI
Two young solo attorneys don’t run from the lion—they embrace itIn a conversation about the future of law—or, really, the future of anything—artificial intelligence is quick to surface. “So many lawyers are trying to avoid the lion, but it’s not going to go away,” says Southfield attorney Rita Soka, who practices estate planning, family law and criminal defense. “It’s only going to get closer and closer. You can’t outrun it.” Instead, she embraces it. “You have to attack it, and know it, and use it, or you’ll be left …
Humanity First
Doris Cheng fills legal gaps with compassionDoris Cheng is grappling with the heft of this American moment. She sighs, takes a beat, shoulders rolled forward, and admits that she’s had a “heavy, emotional day.” The personal injury and products liability lawyer just finished discussions with two different organizations about how to proceed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive orders to eliminate DEI programs and policies. “With the administration targeting private entities who support diversity, equity, …
The ABCs of Reggie Streater
The Board of Education president goes to bat for Philadelphia’s public school studentsNot long after his first stint at community college in the 2000s, Philadelphia’s Reginald “Reggie” Streater spent time “in the wilderness”—including a lacquered bar at a TGI Fridays in Willow Grove Park Mall, behind which he slung drinks like “Fridays ’Ritas,” talked to folks, and wondered what should come next. “I was this bright young man who had no idea what he wanted,” says Streater. “I went to school for architecture, and I didn’t do well because it wasn’t my …
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