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
Trial Lawyers Care
Idaho attorney Bill Mauk relocated his practice to New York City for six months to be a part of the biggest pro bono effort in historyWhen Bill Mauk turned on the television on Sept. 11, 2001, he saw the New York City skyline in flames. Like many, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. But as the news unfolded, a harsh reality did, too: The plane that entered the North Tower went in between the 91st and 95th floors, and his brother, John, worked on the 88th. It wasn’t until 3 p.m. that Mauk was certain that John was unharmed. “My brother, fortuitously, on the recommendation of his wife, went to vote in the New York …
In the Footsteps of Big Grandma
Thomas Hurney Jr.’s thriving practice is part of a family legal traditionAs one of the top attorneys in West Virginia, you’d think Thomas J. Hurney Jr. might have a few things to say about himself. He’s got plenty to say about his firm, his clients, his family and his friends in the legal community. But himself? Crickets. “Oh, you want me to brag?” he says, laughing. “I can brag all day long on other people. I’d be delighted to.” Most prominently is Lorraine Wall Hurney, Hurney’s grandmother on his father’s side. “We call her ‘Big …
Outing Gay Baseball
Lawyers Suzanne Thomas and Michael Reiss negotiate how gay a league needs to beSuzanne Thomas had it all figured out in first grade. “I wanted to be a nun-scientist,” she says, laughing. “I really liked my nun [at school]. And I also really liked my pediatrician.” But it became clear to Thomas, at the ripe age of 8 or 9, that this career path might not pan out. The law, however, was another story. “I got it right in second grade,” Thomas says. “I just knew: lawyer.” Thomas’ parents instilled in her a strong sense of justice. “I imagine that’s partly …
Victims' Advocate
Scott Fischer’s mission: to protect the elderlyScott Fischer spends his days helping the elderly and their families battle nursing homes accused of neglect or abuse. But for the first four years of his career, he was on the opposite side of the courtroom. The large defense firm that had hired him needed help advocating for nursing homes. “I got thrown right into the fire,” he says. “It was a great fit short term, because you never get that type of significant [courtroom] experience as a new lawyer.” But the work didn’t sit well. …
Becoming a Voice
Law student John Rafferty’s mission: help the powerlessIn 2008, John Rafferty was the legal officer aboard a Navy frigate in Japan. “As we pulled into ports in Southeast Asia, I routinely saw many young girls crowding the piers as ships would come in,” he says. “It wasn’t just Navy ships; it was any ship. And I began asking questions about why there were so many young females regularly available.” Those questions led him to read “Good News About Injustice“ by Gary Haugen, which chronicles the atrocities of human trafficking. As he …
Defending the Blogosphere
How Adam Bonin safeguarded blogs from campaign finance lawWhen the Federal Election Commission (FEC) announced in 2005 that it was going to determine standards for applying campaign finance law to the Internet, Adam Bonin had a hunch. “The bloggers could be screwed by this,” he says. “Just screwed.” Bonin learned about the importance of the Internet as a campaign tool while working on Joe Hoeffel’s U.S. Senate bid in 2004. When a friend of his, Philadelphia blogger Duncan Black of Eschaton blog, realized how he and other political bloggers …
The View
When Keith Biebelberg’s clients lost their panoramas, he took the developer to taskThe glossy ad campaign promised breathtaking, unhindered views of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline. Sixteen eager buyers spent as much as $725,000 each for 10 units at Shore South (formerly named ShoreClub), a luxury condo built by The LeFrak Organization, then settled in to enjoy the scenery. Then the Manhattan development giant, headed by Jamie LeFrak and his father, Richard, plunked another high-rise building, AquaBlu, in front of it. The Shore South residents’ promised panorama of …
David's Song
A college friendship with Brian Piccolo led David Zacks into lifelong pro bono work for the American Cancer SocietyIn 1971, ABC aired Brian’s Song, a made-for-TV movie about the friendship between Gale Sayers, the Hall-of-Fame running back for the Chicago Bears, and Brian Piccolo, the Bears’ backup running back who died of cancer at the age of 26, after the 1969 season. The film touched audiences across the country, but David Zacks was already familiar with Piccolo’s story. Zacks, a partner at Atlanta’s Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, met Piccolo at Wake Forest University. “He was a real cut …
A Caregiver's Friend
Former nurse Marilena DiSilvio’s heart is with doctors, hospitals and care providersMarilena DiSilvio gets up to close her office door during an interview, but her assistant asks her to leave it open. Everyone, it seems, wants to hear DiSilvio’s stories. That’s a good thing for any lawyer, but particularly for a medical malpractice litigator whose every case pits her against a patient with a heart-tugging tale. “I’m a human being first and foremost,” says the Reminger attorney, who is also a former nurse. “So the sympathy factor … it affects me. There have been …
Love and Documents
Lawrence Jacobs helps same-sex couples plan their estatesTen years ago, a woman from suburban Maryland visited attorney Lawrence Jacobs in his office in Rockville. “She worked at Walmart, was in her mid- to late 40s, not highly educated or sophisticated,” Jacobs remembers. “She had lived with a woman for a number of years who had a very high-level, high-paying federal government job. Her partner had been sick off and on and died very suddenly. [My client] had no assets or significant income of her own. She was pretty much totally dependent on …
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