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
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 …
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 healthcare 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-healthcare attorney. “People used to say to me, ‘Oh, you left healthcare because you didn’t like it,’ and that is 100 percent wrong. I transitioned to …
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