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
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 …
Smack Dab in the Middle of Writing and the Law
Jo Hackl finds a way to balance, and succeed, in both pursuitsWhen Jo Hackl commits to something, she goes all in. So when Cricket, the tween heroine of Hackl’s middle-grade fiction debut, Smack Dab In The Middle of Maybe, got lost in the woods and had to figure out how to survive, Hackl thought she oughta know how to do the same. She took several outdoor survival classes (see photo of her class below; Hackl and her daughter are on the left), where she learned how to make a weed salad, get water out of a birch tree and build a fire. “I spent a lot of …
Reign Maker
The multidisciplined life of Saidah GrimesIf you want to impress Saidah Grimes, show up at her office with a glinting fantasy football trophy in hand or casually sprinkle Orioles stats into conversation. “Let’s just say one of my biggest loves outside of law is sports,” she says. “I am in a number of fantasy leagues; I love the Orioles, and I am a former college athlete and high school summer league softball coach. Sports is a big part of my life.” Grimes may be a former Miss Black Maryland USA, but she’s an atypical beauty …
The Awakening
Serial made Robert DiCello famous, but it was his case against East Cleveland that made historyWhen Robert DiCello’s assistant told him a man on the phone wanted to talk to him about a podcast, DiCello brushed it off. He was busy. What did he want, anyway? “It’s about the Arnold Black case,” his assistant said. “Tell him I’m not interested.” The calls kept coming. “Finally, I take the call to tell this guy, Emmanuel, I’m not into it, and he’s like, ‘This is for Serial. We’re investigating the Cuyahoga County court system.’ I’m like, ‘That’s nice, but …
Attorney's Bees
Don’t test Bill Ford—he once shook up 10,000 live beesBill Ford blames the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption for his decision to head to law school. The Lathrop Gage lawyer always had a thing for the outdoors, and he had a plan. “I was going to be a park ranger,” he says. “The summer between my sophomore and junior year of college, that was going to involve [an internship as] a fire spotter in the Bitterroot wildlife area up in Idaho.” But then Mount St. Helens erupted, and the gig went from being a fire-spotter to being an ash-shoveler. …
Keeping the Vision
Former TV producer Laverne Berry is now the star of a voting rights documentaryGrowing up, Laverne Berry was so enthralled with television that she wrote a one-and-a-half page Perry Mason script in crayon and begged her parents for piano lessons because The Liberace Show was having a moment. That passion never went away. After she got her B.A. at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, Berry pursued a graduate degree in radio, television and film at Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. Then she went to work at RKO General Television’s local New York …
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