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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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 …
Advising Health Care Providers in the Wake of COVID-19
Health care attorney Adam Balick weighs in on how COVID-19 is impacting his clients and practiceHealth care attorney Adam Balick of Balick & Balick never thought he’d be in the triage business. That’s more in line with the work of his health-care provider clientele. But the COVID-19 outbreak has forced him to approach his practice in an entirely new way. “I’m not sure how else to say it besides it’s been sheer chaos,” Balick says. “The federal government is changing laws in real time, and all of these health-care providers—How do they know the law has changed? How do …
Lights, Camera, Newark
Brooke Barnett gets real—twiceBrooke Barnett pulls no punches. “I’m a 40-something, Jewish-Italian New Jersey girl in a same-sex relationship practicing criminal law in Newark,” Barnett says. “You get what you get with me.” That rawness helped cast her in two reality series. It started when a colleague told Barnett she ought to meet then-Mayor Cory Booker about a documentary he was involved in in 2009 called Brick City. She thought, ‘Why not?’ The series, executive-produced by Forrest Whitaker and …
'These Are Human Beings'
Mari Newman got into civil rights law to fight for those who need her most—like Diana SanchezIt’s the kind of case Mari Newman became a lawyer for. On July 14, 2018, Diana Sanchez, eight months pregnant, was booked into Denver County Jail on a probation revocation. The next day, a medical exam confirmed that Sanchez had a condition that had a 30% chance of causing preterm labor; it also noted she was 1 to 2 cm dilated, although not experiencing contractions. But on July 31, the contractions began. Sanchez told multiple Denver County deputies that she was in active labor. “Yet no …
Earning His Stripes
A scene needs conflict, says improv champ (and Adidas defender) Charlie HennThe opposing counsel for Payless was having a field day with a witness, remembers Charlie Henn. Henn was repping Adidas, and the case hinged on a couple of well-placed stripes on a sneaker. Payless’ argument was, in effect, “Sure, it’s got stripes. But look how many places it has our logo on it. It can’t possibly be confused with your guy’s shoe.” “So the lawyer is up there with his witness, saying, ‘And what about here?’ And the guy says, ‘Yep, our logo is here. And here. …
Puzzling it Out
Joan Davis on the art of pre-eminent lawJoan Davis just can’t help herself. Every time she passes a building, shopping center or intersection that was the focus of one of her eminent domain cases, she geeks out a little bit. “I’m like, ‘Look! I know why there’s a U-turn here instead of a stoplight; or I know why that parking lot is there instead of here,’” she says. “My kids are like, ‘Mom. Please.’” Davis, who’s been with Howard, Stallings, From, Atkins, Angell & Davis since 1989, found eminent …
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