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
Exercising Their Power
Four women who’ve practiced law since the ’70s share their origin storiesWhen asked if she faced any discrimination early in her career, Linda Mariani responds, “Geez, which story do you want?” The women who blazed the trail in law were not only trying to perform in high-pressure jobs with little support, they also faced harassment and discrimination while doing so. This was in the ’70s, before laws prohibited it. Here are the stories of four women who chose law, succeeded when the odds were stacked against them, and found an ally or two along the way. …
The Three Ds of Dan Dain
How the real estate attorney’s desire to chart Boston’s future inspired him to write Boston’s past1632: Boston is home to the first public school. Four years later, Harvard becomes the first institution of higher education in the colonies. The first regularly issued newspaper, The Boston News-Letter, drops in 1704. In 1840, the first women’s rights and Black civil rights movements in the nation are sparked. The world’s first publicly supported free municipal library, The Boston Public Library, opens in 1848. Alexander Graham Bell makes the first phone call in 1867. 1897 offers the first …
Once More with Feeling
Sharon Stiller shares in the emotions of her clientsFor a woman who says she is not theatrical, Sharon Stiller barely makes the two-minute mark in conversation before she delivers, from memory, the opening and closing verses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Bed in Summer,” a poem which imprinted itself on her as a child: “In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.“And does it not seem hard to you,When all the sky is clear and blue,And I should like so much to …
Staying Mum
In high-profile cases like Mel Tucker’s, Jennifer Belveal unspools facts outside the public eyeOfficially, Jennifer Belveal leads Foley & Lardner’s Government Enforcement Defense and Investigations practice in Detroit. Unofficially, she says, “People pay me to be nosy and find out the truth.” Fascinated by mysteries and the facts that unspool from them after some concerted, intelligent digging, Belveal, who has had her eyes trained on the law since she was 12, finds a certain “glamor and glitz” in getting to the bottom of things. “I spend my professional time …
The America His Father Believed In
Shahid Haque’s fight for a more equitable Montana for immigrantsIn 2008, Shahid Haque did something that many might not have expected—he opened an immigration firm … in Montana. “There was no one specializing in immigration in Montana at the time, and it is worth noting that Montana has some of the fewest numbers of immigrants per state capita in the country,” says Haque, founder of Border Crossing Law Firm. “But I felt there was a need.” His first experience in the practice area was as a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, he worked asylum …
The Movement
Yoga helps bring Jacqueline Simonovich her best ideasIf there’s been one constant in Jacqueline Simonovich’s life, it’s movement. She pirouetted through pre-K and beyond, beginning her study of dance as a 4-year-old ballerina. And movement followed her to Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she majored in dance and English literature before earning a master’s in humanities and social thought at New York University. She eventually landed at Berkeley for law school at 29, after helping her husband get through his Ph.D. …
It's All About Evolving
Six perennial Super Lawyers listees talk about adjusting to millennials, AI and the death of the water coolerClarence Barry-Austin misses the in-person interactions with clients. Wayne Positan is concerned about lost opportunities for collegiality in the legal community. Jack Fersko laments the rising costs of litigation.For our 20th anniversary issue, we spoke to six attorneys who have spent 20 consecutive years on the New Jersey Super Lawyers list. We asked them to ponder those last two decades of law: positives and negatives. Most have observed plenty of both, and learned a few lessons along the …
‘Lies You Gotta Pay For’
How Bill Ogden helped Sandy Hook parents take on Alex JonesHeslin v. Jones ruined Bill Ogden as a lawyer, he says. It’s one of three defamation suits brought against Alex Jones by parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over Jones’ false claims that the shooting was a hoax. Ogden served on the four-man team that won a $49.3 million verdict at trial in July 2022. “This case ruined me because, on the defense side, I ran into so many problems—from an ethical and moral standpoint—to the point that now, any …
Seeing It Differently
McKenzie Edwards’ pro bono caseload is a matter of life and deathWhen McKenzie Edwards interviewed for her job at Cleveland Krist, she had one nonnegotiable. “It was very much, ‘Hi. I’ve got a handful of death penalty clients on Texas’ death row, and if me being able to continue doing work for them is going to be a problem, then this firm will not be a fit,’” the general litigator says. It turned out to be a good fit: The firm has championed Edwards’ pro bono caseload, which has its roots in a death penalty defense clinic she joined in law …
The Empathy Muscle
Daniel R. Hernandez on making Chicago a more equitable place to liveDaniel R. Hernandez will admit it: “I’m a little tired sometimes.” And why wouldn’t he be? He’s the founder of NextLevel Law, a family boutique in Chicago that operates on an innovative subscription-based model; in 2022 he was appointed by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to serve as commissioner for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations; he’s president emeritus of the board of directors of Between Friends, a nonprofit that seeks to end domestic violence in the city; and he serves …
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