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
Choosing the Open Door
St. Louis attorneys tell their stories of immigrating to the U.S.One arrived in the United States at 3 months old after being orphaned on the streets of Kolkata. Another came at 24 to attend law school for the second time, and two immigrated as children when communist regimes fell in their respective countries. But all have one important thread in common, best captured by estate planning lawyer Savina Keaney: “As an immigrant, you have only yourself to rely on.” These four St. Louis-based attorneys muscled their way through tough circumstances, language …
Restless Woman Searching
Family attorney and novelist Christine Whitehead sees herself in her charactersHave you read Ernest Hemingway’s beloved work A Single Drop of Red Wine? And did you know the novel was largely inspired by a muse in the shape of his daughter, Finley, who was one of America’s groundbreaking women lawyers in the 1950s? Of course not, because neither the book nor Finley exists. But Hartford family lawyer and novelist Christine Whitehead so deftly entranced readers with her novel Hemingway’s Daughter that a few confused fans reached out. “‘I’m having trouble finding …
'You Can Be Anything You Want to Be'
Attorneys tell their stories of immigrating to the U.S.The four attorneys on these pages arrived in America for different reasons. Two were lawyers who immigrated as adults and had to reorient themselves to U.S. law. Two left their homes with every intention of coming back, but dangerous circumstances forced them to change course. All navigated obstacles—language, employment, acceptance, housing—as they laid their roots here, while remaining romanced by the notion that, in this country, they could do anything. Be anyone. Build something. “We …
Coat of Many Conflicts
And that was just the beginning of the tumult in Rosa Parks’ estate caseEditor's Note: Following a post-publication review, the article “Coat of Many Conflicts” has been …
The Tactician
Family lawyer Michèle Bissada quietly handles the biggest casesOne day last year, after nearly three decades as a high-stakes family attorney in the Bay Area, Michèle Bissada fielded a quizzical call from her father who had just heard from his cousin, an entrepreneur in Paris. “Why have you never told me how famous of a lawyer Michèle is?” her father’s cousin had said. Her father, confused, replied: “I don’t know what you’retalking about.” “What do you mean you don’t know what I’m talking about?” his cousin said. “Have you never …
The Essence of Being a Good Lawyer
Pennsylvania attorneys reflect on two decades of life and lawTwenty years ago, the first edition of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine was published, which included our first list of the state’s top lawyers. To celebrate, we sat down with Bernie Smalley, Bob Mongeluzzi and our first-ever cover subject, Tom Kline, all three of whom have been on the list since its inception. Anna Durbin and NiaLena Caravasos joined the list the following year, in 2005. Below, the lawyers recall 20 years of cases, changes, lessons and growth—and consider the next 20 …
No. 1 Draft Pick
John Zydron went from being a rural kid with big dreams to having a star pinned on his shoulderWhen he considers what it was like to wear the U.S. Army uniform for so many years, retired Brigadier Gen. John E. Zydron doesn’t immediately go to doing tours of Germany and Egypt. Nor to dodging air-defense systems over the Middle East in a Black Hawk helicopter, nor even the years spent overseeing civil military affairs across Eastern Europe. It’s a much quieter moment that comes to mind. In fact, it’s a moment that occurred after he took the uniform off. Not long after Zydron’s …
“On the Right Path”
The pro bono SCOTUS work driving Seepan ParseghianIn 1938, as Nazi power advanced ever closer to the door of Jewish German industrialist Paul Leffmann and his wife, Alice Leffmann, the couple, desperate for safety, paid $12,000 to escape to Switzerland. They funded the effort by selling a prized possession: Pablo Picasso’s 1904 oil panting The Actor. Today, the painting is valued at $100 million, and, after decades of exchanging hands, it hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. When Leffmann’s great-grandniece Laurel Zuckerman …
Life in the Fast Lane
Hee Jin Chang is South Korea’s youngest-ever Olympic swimmerAt 7, there’s not much hot cocoa can’t incentivize—even heading out into a dark, brutal winter for swim practice. When Hee Jin Chang—the Gordon Rees attorney who holds the distinction of being South Korea’s youngest Olympic swimmer—thinks about her early days in the water, it’s the hot chocolate she remembers. “Isn’t that strange?” she asks. “Being cold, coming out of the pool and having a cup … I still remember how it made me feel.” She wasn’t world-class from the …
The Buddy System
Buddy Yosha passes along six decades of legal experience to son BrandonThe father-and-son duo of Louis “Buddy” Yosha and Brandon Yosha could make for a heck of a half-hour sitcom. As Buddy sits down for an interview at Brandon’s home, he grumbles, with a hint of smile, “Now I’m going to have to drive home in the cold after this because we couldn’t do this at my house.” When Brandon rolls his eyes as if to say “This guy, am I right?” you can almost hear the laugh track. The dexterity with which these two trade stories and histories is a hallmark …
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