About Amy White

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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

A Sweet Talent

Andrea Sugar is writing her way through the pandemic

Writing 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 aisle

Joseph 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 Gansner

The 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: Workplace Leave and Protections

Employees in Connecticut have the right to protected workplace leave with statutory leave benefits. The Connecticut paid leave laws provide eligible employees with wage replacement benefits, and state and federal FMLA compliance provides job-protected leave for sickness, to care for family, or a public health emergency. The CT FMLA law applies to all covered employers and provides administrative remedies through a CT DOL complaint for wrongful termination, adverse employment action, and …

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

To protect special needs students' rights in virtual schooling, parents must work with the school district to update the Individualized Education Program (IEP) plan and meet IDEA regulations and FAPE compliance. Section 504 plans require student accommodations and free education rights protect special education with an IEP plan and educational modifications to prevent learning loss and educational regression during remote learning. Regular IEP team meetings and related services help track …

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 helplessness

When 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 …

The Hired Daughters

Valerie Geiger and Cary Cucinelli navigate elder law during the pandemic

Valerie Geiger and Cary Cucinelli can attest that being an elder law attorney in non-pandemic times is difficult enough.  There’s the emotional impact of having a client for years, for example, who one day lights up upon your arrival at the nursing facility where she lives, to the next time, being aggressive and hitting you with teddy bears. “That client relationship is one that’s so important to me, as she’s been with me since 2013,” says Geiger. “And every time I would go see …

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