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
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 closed …
Land Steward
Wichita’s Randy Rathbun left the farm to become one of the state’s foremost environmental litigatorsRandy Rathbun’s legal career may have been born in the glint of a red tractor in the morning sun. At least, that’s how the former Kansas farm boy tells it. “My father set me on a tractor when I was 10 years old,” says Rathbun, “and I decided the very next day I was going to be a lawyer.” This statement, like most that come from Rathbun, 57, is punctuated with a warm, earthy laugh. “Living on a farm, my dad especially taught me that we were stewards of the land,” he says. That …
Real Heroes
Andrew “Duke” Maloney’s five-year battle for Glenn WinukOn the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after Holland & Knight partner Glenn Winuk helped evacuate his building on 195 Broadway, he raced the block and a half to the chaos at the World Trade Center to offer his services as a trained EMT. “They didn’t find his remains until the spring of 2002,” says Andrew “Duke” Maloney III, a partner at Kreindler & Kreindler, who practices aviation litigation. Winuk was found wearing surgical gloves and a stethoscope. His Jericho Volunteer Fire …
Ten Years Later
Three attorneys reflect on how they helped victims of 9/11 through Trial Lawyers Care“Heart-wrenching. Gut-wrenching.” John E. Ballow is trying to describe the story of his client, Parasar Nandan, but after several moments, he sighs. “Those are the words that come to mind, but … that doesn’t even come close.” Ballow’s inability to speak about what his client faced is an affliction shared by fellow New York lawyers John G. Rusk and Andrew G. Finkelstein, who were also part of the 1,000-plus attorneys from across the nation who banded together in the aftermath of …
Taking on Prop 8
How Jeremy Goldman helped battle the anti-gay marriage measureAs a third-year law student, Jeremy Goldman closely followed Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court case that reversed the Florida Supreme Court’s request for a ballot recount, awarding the state’s 25 electoral votes—and the 2000 presidential election—to George W. Bush. “Like a lot of America’s current lawyers, I watched David [Boies] in that case,” Goldman says of the lawyer who argued for Al Gore. “I was disappointed by the [U.S.] Supreme Court’s decision, but to see David …
Flight Path
Geoff Grindeland saved lives as a naval aviator; now he saves the day for pilots in courtAs a Navy pilot, Geoff Grindeland tamed a beast as big as a school bus. “Literally as big as a school bus,” Grindeland stresses, “if you look at the dimensions on paper. People walk up to it and are blown away by how large it actually is.” The Navy craft in question was an MH-53, and Grindeland’s job behind its controls, one of many posts he held while serving, was to look for mines in oceans and detonate them before they could destroy U.S. ships. Now a litigator at Seattle’s Mills …
Something That Feels Like Justice
Staying up late with Mike AttanasioDaniel Stulac, a star on the rise at accounting firm Arthur Andersen, was promoted to partner and appointed lead auditor for international software company Peregrine Systems Inc. in 2001. Things went downhill fast. His firm, of course, collapsed in the rubble of Enron. “No sooner had the dust settled from that, like, one-two, he got swept up into this investigation and his whole life turned upside down,” says Mike Attanasio, vice chair of Cooley LLP’s litigation department. The …
Speaking for the Speechless
Gabrielle C. Sereni fights for special ed kidsSchool districts in Delaware County owe a debt of gratitude to Philadelphia’s daily law journal, The Legal Intelligencer. When Gabrielle C. Sereni, partner and special education department chair at Raffaele & Puppio, was fresh out of law school, she clerked for the Honorable Robert F. Kelly, senior U.S. District Court judge. “I was just flipping through the Intelligencer one day, going through the legal ads—because that’s what you do when you’re a clerk because you think, ‘What …
Working Knowledge
Paul Castronovo and Wayne Positan untangle employment disputes from opposite endsIn a perfect world, employees and management are on the same page: Company handbooks are read cover to cover, thorough policies are implemented, and coworkers—or employees and their bosses—politely work through issues together. But reality proves that workplaces can be a breeding ground for messy emotions. “It’s almost like a divorce in family law,” says Paul Castronovo. “If a [working] relationship has broken up, it can be very personal.” When the pieces are shattered on the …
The Scout
Jim Matthews uses his ballplayer grading scale for med-mal casesJames B. Matthews III has a thing for hot corners. The Atlanta Braves drafted him to play third base—the hot corner—in the late ’70s, and it was on a street corner on a brutal summer day where Matthews met the client who would change his practice. He began in med-mal defense. “There were a couple of occasions representing doctors that they’d basically tell me they were either going to stretch the truth or just not tell the truth,” he says. “I would tell them, ‘No, you are not …
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