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
Those Damned Emails
When the FBI came looking for The Clinton Foundation’s servers, Platte River Networks went looking for Ken EichnerIn late August 2015, Ken Eichner had just finished handling a money-laundering sentencing in Miami Federal Court when his phone buzzed; it was a voicemail that would thrust him into one of the biggest stories of 2016. “The message was from a law firm in Colorado; their client, [Denver-based] Platte River Networks, needed a criminal lawyer,” Eichner says. “I called the CEO of Platte River and he said, ‘The FBI wants all servers associated with The Clinton Foundation.’” Yes—those …
Vikki Ziegler Can’t Sit Still
From reality TV projects to a matchmaking app to her own body-products line, Vikki Ziegler is always creatingWhen Vikki Ziegler was 11, she walked into a courtroom and told a family law judge that she felt her divorcing parents should have a 50/50 custody split; their houses should be within a three-mile radius of each other; and she should remain in her current school district. “I brokered my own custody,” she says. “And as sad as it was, that moment became a springboard for my career. It is such a terrible task, healing from divorce as a child, and I knew that I wanted to help children in …
Welcome to the Town of Trial
Population: the five lawyers of the Simpson clanAmong the five lawyers who make up the lawyering branch of the Simpson family tree—Mike; his three daughters, Michelle, Mackenzie and Maryssa; and his son-in-law, Andrew—you won’t find the same practice area twice. Ranging from criminal defense to civil litigation to insurance defense, the five of them, says Michelle Simpson Tuegel, “could form a super firm.” As it turns out, lawyering wasn’t the family biz till Mike Simpson’s generation. “My family’s profession is …
H2Hope
Ed Buckley helps turn on taps in HaitiWhile reading The Price of Loyalty, which chronicles Paul O’Neill’s tenure as treasury secretary in the Bush administration, Ed Buckley was inspired by an AIDS mission O’Neill took to Africa. “While O’Neill was there, he noticed that there was a terrible water shortage,” Buckley says. “He did some back-of-the-envelope calculations about how cheap it would be to put in wells. He went back all excited to George W. Bush and said, ‘This is something that can have maximum impact with …
All the President's Men
Ninety-four, to be exact, in President Donald Trump’s graduating class at New York Military Academy. Baltimore’s Paul Bekman was one of themAs President Donald Trump wrapped up his first 100 days in office on April 29th, Paul D. Bekman, a personal injury attorney with Baltimore’s Bekman, Marder & Adkins, issued him a report card. Fitting, considering the two were classmates at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall. “I’m not giving him an F. I’m not giving him a D,” Bekman says. “But I’m not giving him an A.” Bekman and Trump met in the fall of ’62, when Bekman—the newest addition to the junior …
An Ensemble Drama
Stueve Siegel Hanson’s Patrick Stueve on his starring role in Bezich v. The Lincoln National Life Insurance CompanyPeter Bezich was surfing the web to find answers to a question he had about his insurance policy when he came across Stueve Siegel Hanson in Kansas City, Missouri. “He saw that we were investigating overcharges for cost of insurance coverage [in two cases] and called us,” says business litigator Patrick Stueve. Bezich, Stueve says, purchased a $200,000 permanent variable life policy—Lincoln Financial’s “Ensemble II.” “What he didn’t understand at the time he purchased the …
Oorah
Brian Kaveney called on his Marine Corps training to build Armstrong Teasdale’s security clearance practice from scratchNine years ago, when Brian Kaveney was a rookie lawyer, he found himself about to deliver an elevator pitch to Armstrong Teasdale’s leadership that would make (or possibly break) his career. “I was pretty nervous,” he remembers. Except Kaveney had been in tougher situations: A Marine Corps infantry officer and Pentagon staffer in the late ’90s, he served under then-Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig. While he can’t say much about his deployments or his Pentagon work, he can speak …
Passing Down Preservation
Lisa and David Riggs devote much of their time to protecting the environmentThere’s a running joke in the Riggs family that goes something like, “Remember that time dad tried to wipe out the whole family on vacation?” David Riggs laughs. “We once went to Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, in Venezuela,” he says from Tulsa’s Riggs Abney Neal Turpen Orbison & Lewis, where he works with his daughter, Lisa. “I hired a local pilot to take us up in this little plane. The guy started to take off on an asphalt runway. He couldn’t get the …
Practice: Runway
How CEO training and a sense of humor helped Monica Richman build a fashion IP practiceScoring front-row seats at New York Fashion Week so close to the runway that a swirl of Michael Kors chiffon caresses your cheek is big. But the hottest ticket in town might be a spot on Monica Richman’s Christmas list. “Each year, I choose one of [my clients] and purchase in bulk,” says the Dentons intellectual property attorney. One Christmas, this meant home décor swag from ED by Ellen DeGeneres. Another year, she purchased DVD copies of TV client A&E’s Emmy Award-winning …
Courtroom Artist - Florida
Three attorneys who wrote—or were mentioned in—published books share their storieThe book: Sara Rose, Kid Lawyer What it’s about: When attorney Spencer Aronfeld was invited to a parents’ reading day at his daughter’s school, he noticed there were cool storybooks about careers like firefighting, law enforcement and even dentistry. “But there was no story for lawyers,” he says. So he wrote one—about a girl who strongly resembled his daughter, who used advocating skills to correct an injustice at school. The illustrated children’s book aims to empower girls to …
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