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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The Hired Daughters
Valerie Geiger and Cary Cucinelli navigate elder law during the pandemicValerie 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 …
'These Are the Women to Call'
Great Lakes Legal Group was born of, and defined by, a tight relationshipRusty Bucket, the tavern over on Telegraph Road near 13 Mile, has a special place in the hearts Jehan Crump-Gibson and Ayanna Alcendor. It was there in 2017 that they chose each other as work sisters. “A lot of our story tends to intertwine with food,” says Crump-Gibson, laughing. “We are eaters.” It’s a good thing the co-founders of Great Lakes Legal Group have each other to keep themselves in check. “Recently, I was trying to finish up this complicated probate file, and Ayanna …
Not All Glam
Entertainment lawyer Ashley Yeargan on her days interning for David E. Kelley and John WellsLimits on screen time were never a big thing in Ashley Yeargan’s family. “I am the child of two people who embrace TV and film,” she says. “I spent every weekend of my childhood going to the movies with my parents; we still do that together. That’s our idea of family time.” Back then, Yeargan’s favorite TV series included The Golden Girls and ABC’s “TGIF” shows like Boy Meets World, Step by Step and Family Matters. Then in sixth grade, she landed on the O.J. Simpson …
Right Place, Right Time
Jamilah LeCruise inherited a practice, then made it her ownOn day one at the Norfolk Public Defenders Office, Jamilah LeCruise inhertied 75 files. “By day two, I had 100,” she says. “A lot of people complain about public defender work, but these were not just files. These were 100 people whose lives I felt instantly responsible for.” It was a lot of pressure. But she embraced the office culture, where there was zero time for hand-holding. “I took this job to get immediate, critical experience,” she says. That’s also why, a few years …
Nurse-turned-lawyer Sally Broad Has a Unique Covid-19 Perspective
She's using her law career to advocate for her health care peersWhile many across the globe are hunkered down in their homes waiting out the Covid-19 pandemic, Buffalo’s Sally Broad is raring to go. And not because she misses her favorite pizza place or wants to stroll-and-shop in Elmwood Village. “I think almost every day that I wish I was out there on the front lines,” says the nurse-turned-health care attorney. “People used to say to me, ‘Oh, you left health care because you didn’t like it,’ and that is 100 percent wrong. I transitioned …
Top Attorneys Offer Their Bingeable Best
What better time than now for some binge-watch recommendations?Here’s a confession about a regular Q&A column we run called “Discovery”: A lot of the questions we ask are ones we wouldn’t mind answers to. Case in point: “What’s the last TV show you binge-watched?” Because who doesn’t need a good TV show recommendation right about now? That’s why we pored over Discovery answers from the last few years to curate an ABA-approved list of great shows to binge during social isolation. First, a little Super Lawyers trivia for your next …
Getting Hammered With 'Nails'
Jenny Colgate was Veterans Stadium’s first female beer vendorOne summer, while on break from the University of Pennsylvania, Jenny Colgate found herself working as a campus tour guide while building a side hustle doing administrative work for Morgan Stanley. But, even with two gigs, she wasn’t making much. “I had a car on campus,” she says, “which was very attractive to some of my friends. Three of them had jobs at Veterans Stadium selling beer, and they said, ‘Hey. You have a car. You should get a job there and then you can drive us.’” At …
Can Businesses Plan for the Next Pandemic?
As business owners recall the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent shutdowns throughout 2020, many might be wondering if there were proactive public health measures that could have been taken to somehow lessen the impacts. M. Heath Gilbert Jr. of Baucom, Claytor, Benton, Morgan & Wood in Charlotte, North Carolina, says while there’s always room for preventative measures, business owners would have been hard-pressed to prepare for what happened. “This hasn’t happened since …
Rosenberg Martin Greenberg’s COVID-19 Online Resource Center for Business Clients
With the law changing every day, Barry Greenberg and his team created an online crisis-response center—in one dayWhen the COVID-19 virus began its initial spread to the United States in January, with the first reported cases popping up in Maryland in early March, Baltimore’s Rosenberg Martin Greenberg started planning for the worst-case scenario. It had a leg up in strategizing, as the firm already had an established disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place. But even that couldn’t answer everything. “We knew there would be hiccups along the way, but we wanted to have a process in …
Prisons, COVID-19 and the New Definition of Public Safety
As Covid-19 numbers rise in New Jersey, Brian Neary argues for release of pretrial defendants with underlying conditionsCriminal defense lawyer Brian Neary has pretty much done it all when it comes to criminal law. But on Friday, March 20, he did something that was a first for him: He argued a release motion for a client over Zoom videoconference. As the Covid-19 virus rages in New Jersey (which, at press time, had the second-highest number of cases in the nation), the courthouses, like most public spaces, are closed expect for some emergency hearings. But Neary felt an air of urgency on behalf of a particular …
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