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
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 …
Sgt. Charles Tesser's WWII Signal Corps Photos
The first time Lewis Tesser saw the collection of photographs his father, Sgt. Charles Tesser, took during World World II as a Signal Corps photographer for the U.S. Army, it was the 1960s and he was just a teenager. Fifty years later, he found the photos again, shortly after his father’s death in 2004. In this year's edition of New York Super Lawyers magazine, we featured the story of how Tesser turned those photos into a book, In The Thick of Things. In honor of Veterans Day, we asked …
‘Part of the History of this Country’
Wayne Drinkwater and Luther T. Munford recall clerking at the U.S. Supreme CourtWayne Drinkwater Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger, 1976-1977 I was doing a federal clerkship in Mississippi when it dawned on me that it wouldn’t cost more than a stamp and an envelope to apply for a Supreme Court clerkship. I still don’t know how I got the interview. Time passed and I got a call from the chief justice’s administrative assistant. She said, “If you were offered a clerkship with Chief Justice Warren Burger, would you take it?” I said, “Ma’am, that is …
"Look, this is the conversation that's probably happening right now behind closed doors"
What tax attorney Caroline Ciraolo learned at the DOJWhen Caroline Ciraolo says there’s not a day since her 1994 clerkship at the U.S. Tax Court that she doesn’t wake up psyched to go to work, that’s not hyperbole. “I love what I do,” says Ciraolo, who works in civil tax controversy litigation and criminal tax investigations and prosecutions. So when a peer who worked at the Department of Justice suggested to Ciraolo that she’d be a good fit for the tax division, Ciraolo demurred. “I was flattered, but I tend to plant roots—I …
Rochester’s “Candid Talk Women” Duo Share Their Top 10 Takeaways
Bernadette Catalana and Kelly Odorisi have a singular mission: empower women lawyers to opt inBFFs Bernadette Catalana (Lavin O’Neill) and Kelly Odorisi (Law Office of Kelly Odorisi) noticed something disturbing a few years ago—too many young, promising women attorneys leaving the law. A conversation between the friends about what has afforded them staying power inspired a traveling CLE-certified chat-fest tailored toward women and the law. “Candid Talk Women” has presented across the country, and Catalana and Odorisi have a book in the works, too. Here, they share their Top 10 …
The Things He Carried
Lewis Tesser’s book of his father’s World War II photos is now in the National ArchivesThe first time Lewis Tesser saw the box of photos, he was 15. He and his father, Charles Tesser, were in the basement, where they could often be found hunched over an old workbench working on projects, when his father showed him the box. “I’m embarrassed to say I was disappointed,” Tesser says. “It wasn’t full of blood and gore and guts and people shooting each other.” Instead, he saw black-and-white images of the minutiae that made up the day of an American soldier in World War II: …
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