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 Linchpin
From a Hollywood life to Albany law, the common theme was communicationJulieAnn Calareso can thank the Colin Farrell flick Phone Booth for her career change. It was 1999, and Calareso was living that Hollywood life as an assistant to the director of creative affairs for Kopelson Entertainment. You’d find Calareso reading scripts or doing legwork for movie deals. “From 1996 to 1999, I slept with a beeper under my pillow,” she says. Calareso thought she’d be a journalist or TV writer. A communication degree felt like it would give wiggle room for either …
Unbecoming
Natasha Hazlett—lawyer, author, influencerNatasha Hazlett is a triple threat. She doesn’t act, dance or sing. She’s in the lawyering, branding and influencing biz. “I kind of fell into it,” she says of her outside-the-billable-hour pursuits. She and her husband, a former ad exec for Fortune 500s, spearhead Fast Forward Marketing, a training and consulting company. Their mission: help clients define, build and monetize their authentic personal brand. Feeling out of sorts with “just” being a lawyer, Hazlett jumped aboard a …
DIY Legal Documents on the Internet May Lead to Trouble
Tamara Kurtzman knows it sounds self-serving, but she says entrepreneurs should steer clear of the internet as a source of legal legwork for their startups. “You need to actually see a lawyer,” she says. “Sadly, it’s the first thing that most people don’t do.” She gets it — startups are often tight on cash and focused on the dream. “Online resources are vast, and while DIY legal is very tempting, it’s also a disaster waiting to happen,” says Kurtzman, of TMK Attorneys in …
RBG: The 'B' is for Box Office
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a cinematic 2018—but she’s been starring in our pages for a while"RBG" was the second-biggest documentary at the 2018 box office. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is ready for her close-up. Again. In May 2018, the documentary RBG premiered. It grossed $14 million at the box office, the second highest-grossing documentary of 2018. And on Christmas Day, a feature film about Ginsburg opened: On The Basis of Sex starring Felicity Huffman as Ginsburg and Armie Hammer as her husband, tax attorney Martin Ginsburg. Plus it’s not …
The Storm Kit
After a battle with cancer, John E. Keefe Jr. is using his experience to help protect other lawyersThe thing about being diagnosed with cancer is that the “Open” sign still turns on the next morning. New Jersey State Bar President John E. Keefe Jr. knows that all too well. Keefe, of Keefe Law Firm, says the news of his cancer diagnosis in 2017 rocked him. “I’m a competitive, type-A worker, partner, dad and husband, but I immediately had to change my focus to stay alive,” he says. The diagnosis was one thing. Processing it was another. “All the things that go through your …
A Brain Under the Helmet
Why Scott Havlick swapped his bike bag for a briefcaseAsk former competitive cyclist Scott Havlick to tell you a biking war story, and you won’t hear about road rash or epic crashes in the peloton or even the time he worked as an extra in the film American Flyers. (“You can only identify me as one of the few guys all bandaged up, because I crashed during one of the days filming,” he says with a laugh.) No, it’s a quieter anecdote that comes to mind. “The story that sticks out to me does so because it explains how I was a little different …
Great Trials, Occasional Errors
Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey’s new podcast delves into the stories, mistakes and risks of notable court casesListen to Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey bat around the infamous “Owl Theory” from Netflix’s The Staircase—which chronicles the 2003 Michael Peterson murder trial in North Carolina—and it’s clear they make a good act. “The neighborhood that I live in is near a wildlife preserve, and there have been multiple owl attacks,” Lowry insists during a phone interview. “You can be walking or running down the street, and they swoop down and grab your hat. One of our neighbors was …
C’mon and Raise Up
North Carolina, entertainment attorney Alonzo McAlpine Alston says you’re the next hotbed for entertainmentBlame it on his parents or his first lemonade stand—Alonzo McAlpine Alston was always trying to get his piece of the entrepreneurial pie. Alston’s father ran several successful businesses, and his mother ran her own pediatrics practice. “They laid the foundation for my belief that operating a business was a way to have independence and to interact with a large swath of people,” says Alston, of solo entertainment firm McAlpine in Charlotte. There was another love Alston was …
Expecting Better
Employment lawyer Renee Coover talks up pregnancy rights from the TEDx stageRenee Coover stands in the center of a large red circle on a stage at Dominican University. Plush purple curtains drape behind her. Ear piece in, jewels strewn around the high-neck of her coral dress, Coover cuts a poised image as she addresses a graphic that appears on two screens flanking her. It’s a map of the world, with three regions highlighted: Oman, which borders Saudi Arabia; Papua New Guinea, off the coast of Australia; and the United States of America. “These are the only three …
Oh Snap
Lawyer-photographer Leslie Billman went from snapping still lifes to capturing the world’s most dynamic athletesLeslie Billman was a bit of a hustler in high school. The family lawyer, who moonlights as a sports photographer, was inspired by her grandfather. “He was a real old-fashioned photographer,” Billman says. “He taught me how to use a darkroom.” And that’s when the hustling began. “I made so much money during high school. I set up a camera in front of the TV on a tripod, and I took pictures of the Beatles when they were on Ed Sullivan,” she says. “Then I would take the film …
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