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 Game Changer
Tim Cavanagh turns lost causes into courtroom victoriesOne morning when Tim Cavanagh was about 18, he ducked into a courtroom, as he did regularly, to sit in on trials at the Cook County Courthouse. His mother worked for a judge in the circuit court while Cavanagh was in high school and college, so his interest in the law formed early. “I loved to go downtown and watch some of the big personal injury lawyers in town—people like Phil Corboy and Tom Demetrio—try cases,” Cavanagh says. “This is clearly one of the things that made me want to …
Unnecessary Roughness
Workers’ comp lawyer Benjamin Boscolo represents plumbers, bus drivers and Baltimore RavensBenjamin Boscolo believes it was a stroke of luck that led him to his gig at ChasenBoscolo in Greenbelt. He’s right—about the stroke. He grew up near a golf course, played often with his brother, and it was on the links that he encountered people who, unbeknownst to them, helped inform the young Boscolo’s decisions about his future. “I noticed the people who could play golf during the weekdays were doctors, lawyers and business owners,” he says. “It seemed being a lawyer was a great …
Beer Man
Transactional business lawyer Adam Marshall knows business and brewsAdam Marshall is a good guy to have on your side. He knows the law and, thanks to his family’s brewery, he knows beer. The intersection of the two can sometimes prove comical. “In the early days of the startup, my brother, my dad and I were spending a lot of time after business hours promoting the beer at any bar or restaurant that would have us,” Marshall says. “I often did not have time to change from my ‘law uniform,’ suit and tie, into my ‘beer uniform,’ a shirt with the …
Team David
David C. Friedman helps Summit Entertainment release the Twilight series and moreOh, to have been a fly on the wall at Paramount Studios in November 2008, when a little flick called Twilight hit the silver screen. Not even the legions of screaming adolescent girls and TwiMoms could muffle the reverberating cha-ching of box-office cash registers across the nation—and not a dime of it went to Paramount. Grossing $7 million in midnight tickets sales alone on opening night, the film, released by Summit Entertainment and costing $37 million to make, raked in $35.7 million on …
Dallas Maverick
Gayla Crain wanted to work at a new kind of law firm, so she went and helped build itGayla Crain likes to laugh. She laughs when she remembers herself 20-some years ago, strolling around her son’s soccer field while talking to clients on a cell phone the size of a toaster. She laughs about that time she got a call from a prestigious New York firm that asked her to head up a new branch in Texas as managing partner … at a time when women just didn’t do that. She even laughs when confessing that she’s slowed down a bit since 2004, out of necessity—“I had a heart …
The Right Fit
Former insurance defense lawyer and shoe salesman Robert Clayton finds his niche on the plaintiff sideIn 1991, Robert Clayton didn’t know what he’d do with this life. “I just packed a U-Haul and drove to LA from Chicago,” the Taylor & Ring lawyer remembers. “I had no money, besides the $1,000 in my pocket, and no job. But the weather, the schooling costs—back then, in-state residents [of California] paid a quarter of the cost of education I’d have to pay in Illinois—were real selling points. I had to get a degree.” To establish residency, Clayton worked for a year. “I …
Ice Man
Playing hockey as a kid taught Pascal Benyamini to never give upTo say Pascal Benyamini has been globally influenced would be an understatement. Benyamini, who is Persian, was born in Iran. After the 1979 Revolution, he went with his family to Montreal. He was 6 at the time. When he was 20 he joined them in California. He speaks French, Persian and Hebrew. But what’s always translated most to him in any language and culture was hockey. “If you had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have told you a professional hockey player,” the …
Bartholomew Dalton Doesn't Want You To Hire Him
If you need his services, something has gone terribly wrongYou don’t want to be sitting across the desk from Bartholomew Dalton. It’s not that he isn’t pleasant. With sandy blonde hair and kind eyes, he resembles Philip Seymour Hoffman, and has the theatrics to go with it—especially when it comes to talking standards of care for his medical malpractice clients. And it’s not that the chair isn’t nice. Deep mahogany, it perfectly complements the richly painted Delaware courthouses that border Dalton’s well-appointed office in downtown …
In Cicero’s Footsteps
Phoenix attorney Shawn Aiken on law, Latin and the perfect hazelnut cheesecakeWhere did you grow up? It’s a place in Minnesota where the horizon is right out in front of you: very flat, part of the plains instead of the wooded lake-filled country most people think about. It’s closer to the Dakotas, and in fact, it’s in a little corner of Minnesota that’s a few miles from the South Dakota border. It’s called Marshall, where the corn grows high and duck season is very important. It’s windy, it’s flat, it’s cold, but with the warmest people you could …
Suzanne Cerra's Better Way
She used to have bold ideas on how to run a firm; now she’s using themHere’s the thing about Suzanne Cerra: Her easy manner and quick laugh could charm the rattle off a snake, but if you don’t think she’s flexing serious muscle under the sleeves of her silk blouse, you’re mistaken. “I’ll never forget taking one deposition … My adversary was an older gentleman, 20 years my senior,” says the petite Cerra. “After, like, four minutes he was trying to walk all over me, impose objections that were absolutely inappropriate. I was not going to be walked …
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