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
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 …
Copyright Law in the Digital Age
Say you come across a book review in The New York Times that your friend must read, and you copy and paste it into an email. No problem, right? Not necessarily. “It’s so easy to copy and send,” says lawyer Joseph Petersen, a New York intellectual property lawyer. “But if that article is behind a pay wall, for example, that’s infringement.” Most of us don’t think twice about copyrighted works, either. “The apprehensive consumer is the exception to the rule,” Petersen agrees. …
The Person She Always Was
There were never two sides to Robyn GiglQ: Tell me about growing up. Did your childhood point you toward the law? A: I was born in 1952 in a basic middle- to upper-middle-class family; I had two older sisters, a younger brother, and my mom and dad were happily married. My father was a business executive. I saw how hard he worked, and I decided I never wanted to go into the business world. I didn’t realize yet that the practice of law was truly a business. I saw Inherit the Wind, and read Clarence Darrow for the Defense, and was …
New Jersey Family Law: Common Questions Answered
New Jersey family lawyer Bari Weinberger is the first to admit she’s no gadget geek. When she has a tech question, one quick web search is all it takes for her to find the info she needs to tell a gig from a GIF. But she noticed that for her potential clients, there was no go-to resource available that could translate legalese into language that makes sense. So she created one. “I’ve been writing all of my career for judges and other lawyers,” says Weinberger, founder of the law …
The Benzo Way
From paralegal to partner to president—and now principal at Benzo Law—it’s been a steady climb for Tracee R. BenzoWhen Dean Richardson Lynn presented Tracee R. Benzo, class of 2008, with the John Marshall Law School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in Chicago six years later, he said, “She will eventually be president of any organization she joins.” One down, anyway. Benzo, a workers’ comp attorney, is the immediate past president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA). “I like to galvanize other people and be of service, with the law as my catalyst,” she says. Benzo ushered in …
The Dream Job
Tin Fulton Walker & Owen’s Katy Lewis Parker reflects on six years as legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of North CarolinaQ: You went from Holland & Knight to the ACLU. Why the transition? A: I interned for the ACLU when I was in law school and loved it. I took a circuitous path to get back there. But I don’t regret it. Holland & Knight had such a reputation for pro bono. They also did a lot of media law, and I always gravitated towards constitutional issues. I was there for five years; during that time my husband, a reservist, got called to Iraq. I didn’t plan to stay at a large firm for as long as I …
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