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
Electoral College Dropout
After stymieing Kanye West’s bid to run for president in New Jersey, Scott Salmon wonders, does anybody make real petitions anymore?Scott Salmon has no problem telling you this whole thing was born of his own “righteous indignation and incredulousness.” He couldn’t help it—Kanye West just brought out the employment and elections attorney’s inner New Jerseyan. Not to say Salmon doesn’t like West’s music. He bops to the deep cuts. But when West tried to get on New Jersey’s 2020 presidential ballot, the track skipped. “At a certain point, it just became so ridiculous that it was insulting,” Salmon says. …
Not Scott Turow's Last Trial
After 14 books and 40 years in the law, the bestselling author is still going strongScott Turow is feeling deliciously unpeopled. He and his wife, Adriane, have foregone their Chicago and Florida homes in favor of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, to ride out the pandemic—and, for the perennial New York Times bestseller Turow, to write. “We have a country place that has ended up being our principal residence in the days of the virus,” he says. “We're out here, in a relatively unpeopled area, and my wife has this beautiful, huge garden. It’s a nice world to be in.” …
Called Up
Ariel Roberson went from pro soccer player to business litigator and children’s book publisherA soccer phenom growing up, at 15 Ariel H. Roberson got called up to the U.S. U-16 National Team. But a week later, she tore her ACL. “It was devastating,” she says. Once she recovered, she continued to train with the hopes of playing in college and beyond. But her senior year, she tore her other ACL. “I worked really hard to get back after that second injury,” Roberson says. It paid off, and she played through college at UNC (in 2006, her junior year, UNC won the national …
Changing the System
Starling Underwood works behind the screen to improve access to justiceStarling Underwood likes the analytic nature of his work as a senior lawyer on Kilpatrick Townsend’s e-discovery team. He likes the thrill of the hunt for hot documents and the rhythm of his research; the preparation required to outline critical issues for the case attorneys in advance of depositions. But he also likes helping people in a more tangible way. He reflects on the many weekends as a 7th-grade student that he spent sitting around the kitchen table of a family friend who, …
Philadelphia Police Reform: New Laws To Know for Citizens
Philadelphia voters overwhelmingly approved two police reform measures on the 2020 ballot. Stop and Frisk The first ballot measure aims to amend the city’s “stop and frisk” practice. “Essentially, a police officer has to have a reasonable belief or suspect that a crime was in the process of being committed, had been committed or was going to be committed very soon,” says criminal defense lawyer Justin Capek with Philadelphia’s Schatz, Steinberg & Klayman. “A police …
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 …
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