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
Larry Laycock’s Christmas Stories
How one lawyer’s post-trial mopes spawned a traditionLarry Laycock was moping around the house, feeling very unhappy. “I didn’t know what to do with myself,” he remembers. After a months-long patent infringement case that was tried out of town came to a favorable resolution in early September, Laycock, an IP litigator at Salt Lake City’s Maschoff Brennan, found himself unmoored. “I do not do well sitting still,” he says. “I was driving my wife and four kids nuts.” Not only did he need a project, but he needed one that would quell …
Book Case
Angela Matney shares her story in the Human LibraryWhen the executive director of the disAbility Resource Center in Fredericksburg, Virginia reached out to attorney Angela Matney to gauge her interest in a project that sought a diverse group of people, Matney didn’t think twice. Besides having served as board chair of the center, Matney has made a name for herself advocating for people with disabilities. The project was called The Human Library, an initiative imported from Denmark in which people are encouraged to check out specific books. …
‘This Is Family Law Now’
AAML President Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich on assisted reproductive techniques and the new House tax billPhoto provided by Spoon Photo & Design. It was a November evening at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, but as New Jersey family law attorney Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich surveyed a packed house that included her eight grandchildren, she felt transported thousands of miles away. “The theme of the gala was ‘An Evening in Paris,’” says Marzano-Lesnvevich of the night she calls “the absolute epitome of my career”—her swearing-in as the current president of the American Academy …
When Love Walked In
As lawyer John Cord and his wife, Kelly, were working their way through their bucket list, they decided it was time to open their doors to a foster childAs my wife, Kelly, and I were checking off our bucket list—education, travel, first house—it felt like time to do something more. Like foster. The credit for this decision, like many things, belongs to my wife. She has a level of empathy that I know will be forever out of reach. When she was younger, she babysat for a family that fostered, and she always knew that if she ever had the means, she would do it. We were eager to help a child in need; and excited, like any expectant parent, to …
After Ferguson
How NBA president Pamela Meanes helped wage war on police brutalityOn Aug. 9, 2014, Pamela Meanes—who had been sworn in as president of the National Bar Association, the largest predominantly African-American bar in the country, 10 days earlier—received a call from a colleague while she was visiting Boston. “Have you heard what’s happening in St. Louis?” he asked. “A young man named Mike Brown got shot. They left his body in the streets. The National Bar Association needs to get something out.” “Not only was this happening during my …
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 …
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