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.
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2020 Vision
Almost a decade before the pandemic forced America’s students into virtual school, Granville Templeton’s education-tech startup saw the futureIn 2011, Granville Templeton III and his business partner had a thought: Let’s digitalize the education system. “We wanted to create a software system that puts everything a student, teacher or parent needs in one square box,” Templeton says. Partner Alexis Coates brought the tech know-how and Templeton brought the business acumen. Soon, startup 1sqbox was born. The idea grew from the one-on-one classroom technology rollout schools were gearing up for nationwide. “The more well-to-do …
A Sweet Talent
Andrea Sugar is writing her way through the pandemicWriting since the third grade, when her mother bought her a typewriter with her S&H Green Stamps, Towson attorney Andrea Sugar has nurtured a side biz called “Verse-A-Tility: Roasts. Toasts. Boasts.” “Unfortunately, I don’t make much money,” Sugar says with a laugh. She made a few bucks through law school, writing personalized poems or roasts for her professors and fellow students—10 years her junior, because Sugar worked first in social work, then spent 14 years working in …
Chip Off the Old Block ... Almost
Cincinnati lawyers Michael Lyon and son Joseph Lyon share a practice area, but on different sides of the aisleJoseph Lyon followed his father, Michael, into the practice of law and even into the same practice area: personal injury. But that's where he stopped. Michael, a medical malpractice defense attorney, made a strong impression on his children: "I loved being a trial lawyer, and I think my kids could really see that.” They could. “I loved listening to his stories about being in trial,” says Joe. But he had a different take from his dad. “I noticed I really started identifying more …
It's Somebody's Job to Make That Stuff
And on Letterman, at Miramax films, and now on a podcast, that somebody is Nick GansnerThe product of a two-lawyer household, Nick Gansner has fond memories of his parents’ day jobs, particularly the perks, like when he got awarded with a Cubs game for good behavior in court. “As a kid, I was like, ‘Oh. I guess that’s what moms and dads do: be lawyers,” he says. So it tracked that his first stop after undergrad was to work as a paralegal. But when he stopped by his university’s career services department to put the finishing touches on a résumé, an internship …
Virginia CARES Act: Benefits To Know for Relief
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act was the first stimulus package that the U.S. federal government passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a Senate version of the bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on March 27, 2020. The CARES Act would be followed by additional funding and measures under the Consolidated Appropriations Act in December 2020, and the American Rescue Plan Act, which Congress passed and …
Connecticut Employee Rights and COVID
As Connecticut workers returned to their workplaces post-pandemic, many questions remained about protections, safety, COVID-19 pandemic protocol, and work-from-home-continuations. The problem, according to employment and labor attorney Mary Kelly, is that the answers to many such questions are a bit murky. “All of these [employment] statutes were created for other reasons and are being applied to COVID,” she says. “It’s very hard to know... how the law will evolve, but it …
Voting Rights for People in Assisted-Living Facilities
Since Americans navigated a general election during the coronavirus pandemic, many voting hurdles have been identified — including those impacting the elder population served by lawyers like elder law and estate planning attorney Valerie Geiger. “My partner and I are guardians for individuals in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as people who live in their own homes,” Geiger says. “What’s interesting to me is, for my facility or nursing-home clients, I get …
Special Needs Student Rights in Virtual Schooling
In 2020, families across the United States faced a school year that looked nothing like what they expected due to the coronavirus pandemic. For Maryland families of students with disabilities or special needs, the time to ask questions is never-ending — even more so during a time of school closures, online learning, and uncertainty about special education programs. Ellen Callegary had direct experience with this, as she was on the receiving end of many calls in the 2020 school year. What …
What To Know About Digital Spying During a Divorce
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should — the old adage is particularly applicable to soon-to-be ex-spouses who have ready access to digital spying tools in their back pockets. Why not use what you have to get the upper hand in a divorce case, particularly as a means to bolster your custody chances? Well, for starters, the courts don’t always look kindly upon surveillance evidence, says family law attorney Jay Butterman of Butterman & Kahn in New York City. “It’s kind of …
The Three H's
Fred Brewington combats the costs of unequal voting access: hopelessness, hatefulness and helplessnessWhen Frederick K. Brewington was growing up in Nassau County, there was an ocean between the Black and white communities—Ocean Avenue, the geographic and cultural divide that separated the two sides of the Malverne School District. But oceans are meant to be crossed. And in 1966, Brewington and his elementary school peers did just that as the district officially desegregated. Opposition was intense; racial tensions reached a boiling point. “We were the test case for this region of the …
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