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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Anchor Away
She made her name in the news business, but Jamie Jacks’ lead story is the lawOn the first live shot of Jamie Jacks’ professional broadcast news career, just as she was getting ready for her close-up, all hell broke loose. “I was covering a city council meeting in Columbus, a run-of-the-mill piece on the new board members being sworn in,” she says. “All of a sudden, there was a verbal altercation. Then one council member shoved another. So I call the news department as I’m about to go live, and my producer says, ‘Get ready—you’re top of the news now, …
Shannon Davies: on the Creative Side
The business litigator turns on the inspiration both in front of juries and on the pages of her novelsShannon Davies has a habit of just getting it. After a sorority sister suggested to Davies—who wasn’t sure what she was going to do after college—that she sit for the LSAT, Davies’ first response was, “What’s that?” Her second response was to pass it without much prep. Years later, after just nine hours of a master’s level novel-writing class, Davies published her first novel, Hunting License, the first in a three-part series. In between, she got that J.D. “I was not …
Changing Priorities in Deporting Undocumented Noncitizens
U.S. immigration policies and enforcement have shifted many times over recent years depending on who is in power. One of the most contested areas of immigration policy is how to prioritize undocumented noncitizens for deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a government agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If you are facing immigration enforcement measures, learn about your rights and reach out to an immigration lawyer. January 2017: Deportation …
Getting to YES
Sports lawyer Irwin Kishner’s highlight reel includes developing the country’s first regional sports networkMore than 20 years ago, Irwin Kishner got one heck of a call to the bigs. He was a young transactional lawyer working in M&A for Herrick when the prestigious firm Shea & Gould imploded. One of its attorneys, Lonn Trost, a corporate lawyer with an impressive roster of sports clients, including the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Mets and Yankees, and Lelands Auctions, landed at Herrick. The two worked well together, and Trost trusted Kishner to work some Mets and Yankees business. Then …
What the Lawsuit Means for Daily Fantasy
Anyone who’s watched football has seen the daily fantasy sports commercials dozens of times; during the 2015 NFL season, they were as omnipresent as the grumbling Monday morning quarterback in your office. But was there truth in advertising? According to a recent private class action lawsuit, not exactly. We spoke with attorneys who are not associated with the case about why they’re keeping a close eye on the outcome. Class Action Against Daily Fantasy Sports Sites “The class action …
A Chemical Action
Bud Roegge litigates an agricultural disasterL.R. “Bud” Roegge learned a valuable lesson early in his career: You work during lunch hour, you get the call. “I was just there,” Roegge says of the day he landed the Michigan Chemical case in 1974. “I was surprised the partners stuck me on it.” The crux of the case was pretty straightforward: Someone at Michigan Chemical placed the wrong paper bags on a pallet and shipped it out. “Michigan Chemical made magnesium oxide, a white-powder substance, which was used in cattle feed …
Postcards from the Edge
Banafsheh Violet Nazari survived the Iran-Iraq War to represent the marginalized in employment lawBanafsheh Violet Nazari has been fighting against marginalization her whole life, and now she’s fighting for the marginalized. “If I’m not a plaintiff-side civil rights lawyer, I’m not going to be lawyering,” Nazari says. Born in Tehran a few years after the Iranian Revolution, Nazari grew up under an oppressive regime, and was bombarded during the Iran-Iraq War. “I’m no stranger to seeing maimed children,” Nazari says. “I’m no stranger to bomb shelters. I spent many days …
Where in the World is Anastasia Protopapadakis?
You don’t need a game show to find her—just check out her travel blogWhile many kids spent their summers covered in bug spray and eating mess-hall suppers, Anastasia Protopapadakis was forced to visit family in Greece, where she had her run of the Acropolis and Crete’s mesmerizing beaches. “I remember thinking, ‘I just want to go to camp with my friends!’” Protopapadakis says with a laugh. “My parents were like, ‘You’re going to see your family and that’s that.’ Of course, looking back, I realize I should have appreciated it. I remember …
Just Do It
Tina Cundari’s simple motto for giving backWhen Tina Cundari arrived at Sowell Gray Robinson in 2005, it’s not that the firm’s pro bono committee was fledging; it was nonexistent. When the firm’s managing partner, Cal Watson, sent out an email a few months after Cundari began, suggesting that the firm increase their pro bono work, her fingers flew to the ‘reply’ button. “I was easily the first to respond; that’s how I became ‘the person,’” she says with a laugh. “I was so excited that I immediately responded …
Of Headlines and Coal Mines
Karen Elliott’s journey from journalism to the lawIf there’s one thing that Eckert Seamans’ Karen Elliott will never forget, it’s this: While all mammals are animals, not all animals are mammals. It’s not a lesson borne of case law, but a cub reporter’s rookie mistake. “Let’s just say the head of National Geographic was not pleased,” Elliott says. Elliott spent a few years as a journalist and scored her first gig for National Geographic’s children’s title, World Magazine. “I wrote science stories, and in this case, the …
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