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
The Adventures of ScienceLawyer
Tammy B. Georgelas talks science, tech and the beauty of a four-digit bar numberQ: It’s unusual for a lawyer to have a zoology degree. A: I wanted to be a field biologist. You know how you used to sit in your classroom in school and you’d look out the windows and wish you could be on the playground all day long? The job was like that. I got to play outside all day. The problem with it, though, is you work off grants. At the end of the day, I’d come home and look at my two cats in my tiny one-bedroom apartment and say, “Well, one of us gets to eat tonight. Guess …
Trevor Potter and the Magic Briefcase
Does Trevor Potter look familiar? The Caplin & Drysdale lawyer helped Stephen Colbert’s “Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” Super PAC navigate federal election lawQ: Literature suggests you’re a very serious Republican lawyer, but on TV, I’ve watched you tell Stephen Colbert that killing a ham in the likeness of Karl Rove won’t get him in trouble. Which guy are you? A: I’m a lawyer who loves the law, and loves thinking through these issues, but understands that sometimes the answers appear crazy. The joy of working with The Colbert Report was that Stephen freed me up to acknowledge that there is humor and irony in how all of this is interpreted. …
Scalpel, Please
Trial attorneys get to build cases. Gentry Locke appellate lawyer Monica T. Monday delights in slipping on doctor’s gloves to dissect themQ: You have a great comic book heroine name. Do people comment on it? A: They do. But I’ve always thought it sounds like a weather girl. Like, “Monica Monday, reporting live, and it’s very sunny today.” Q: More like, “Monica Monday: Oral Argument Junkie.” That’s what you call yourself, right? A: You’ve read my article. Yes. I’m absolutely addicted to oral argument. I remember in law school, the very first time that I saw an appellate argument demonstration. Immediately it was …
Not Forks and Knives
Amy Sara Cores knows when to hold ’em and fold ’em in family law cases, but international kidnapping cases weigh heavilyQ: How did a classically trained cellist who rides a Harley end up a lawyer? A: It’s a funny story. I didn’t want to go to college because I was going to be a rock star—I play guitar, I sing. That was the goal. I moved to Florida [from L.A.] to live near my grandparents, with whom I was very close. At some point, I was like, “I guess I’ll get a degree.” I got into all these great music schools, but I really didn’t want to go too far from my grandparents, so I went to Florida …
Midnight in the Theater of Good Acoustics: A Savannah Story
How T. Mills Fleming gave the Lucas a sequelWhen you’re sick, you call a doctor. When a hospital is sick, it calls T. Mills Fleming. Fleming, of HunterMaclean in Savannah, represents health care systems, but his subspecialty is helping hospitals get off life support. “I call them distressed hospitals,” Fleming says. “Hospitals that are in very difficult financial, operational, managerial or governance straits, where, for whatever reason, if things don’t get fixed, the hospital is going to go bankrupt or be closed down, or be …
Eminent in His Domain
Charles N. Pursley is all condemnation, all the timeOne of the first jobs delegated to Charles N. Pursley, the 13th lawyer to join the Atlanta office of what would eventually become Kutak Rock, was to serve as the firm’s new (and only) condemnation lawyer. “I said, ‘Great! What’s that?’” Pursley remembers. “We had about 15 minutes on eminent domain in law school.” Pursley, who came to the firm with a background trying cases like courts martial as a JAG, knew he loved litigation. He also knew what kind of lawyer he didn’t want …
Kathy Portnoy's Complaint
She brought Updike and Mailer to Atlanta, but couldn’t land Philip Roth“There are lawyers who are emotional, and it can interfere with being an effective lawyer,” says family attorney Kathy L. Portnoy of Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis & Portnoy. “I go by the Shakespeare adage: What we lawyers do is, ‘Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.’ I can go at it with my brother or sister lawyer in the courtroom, but I expect to walk out and shake hands.” That Shakespeare reference, by the way, is no one-off. An avid reader who’s always been in …
On the Fly with Ed Hinson
For the James, McElroy & Diehl lawyer, there’s nothing like the lure of a government investigation—unless it’s rainbow troutQ: I hear you’re a born-and-bred Southerner. A: I grew up in Rock Hill, a relatively small Southern town. Most people worked in the textile industry. My grandfather ran a country store about 20 miles south of Rock Hill, out in the country, and had a farm. I was influenced by a bunch of farmers. Q: No lawyers? A: No lawyers. When I was growing up, I read a lot, and I was aware that a lot of people in this country that I admired were lawyers—people like Abraham Lincoln. I was interested in …
'Where Do We Even Start?'
In the wake of the Ferguson protests, Saint Louis University’s legal clinics take on long-simmering issuesIn July 2014, professor Patricia Lee became director of Saint Louis University School of Law’s legal clinics, which have a decades-long tradition of representing the poor, homeless, people of color and veterans in St. Louis County and throughout Missouri. A month later, on Aug. 9, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen, was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, less than 20 miles from campus. Over the following weeks, violent clashes between protestors and police unfolded in the streets. …
The Constant Constables
James Constable, the fifth generation of Constables to practice law in Maryland, tells us about his passion for preserving land, growing up in the country, and that time his great-great uncle almost clobbered a U.S. presidentQ: The Constables have quite the legal legacy. Can you tell me about that? A: There’s a hell of a lot to tell. It goes back to my great-great-grandfather. He was a highly respected lawyer named Albert Constable, born in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1805. He lived on the banks of the Susquehanna River. He was actually, I believe, the first elected judge of the Baltimore, Cecil, Harford county circuit. His son’s name was also Albert. He was well-known as an appellate lawyer. A dashing, …
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