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
Lawyer's Best Friend
How a poodle named Aristotle brings calm to Joel Feldman’s family law officeJoel Feldman has a secret weapon at his Boca Raton law office. Be warned, though—it steals potato chips and is often spotted sneaking into rooms where confidential information is divulged. “But he does understand attorney-client privilege and would never breathe a word of anything he hears,” Feldman assures. The “he” in question is Aristotle, his beloved standard, parti-colored poodle. Before retiring to firm life, “Totle” was a therapy dog, and Feldman would take him to tour …
How Can My Biometric Data Be Used in the Workplace?
Some employers require biometric data to grant workers access to restricted areas or sensitive data. Employers may use employee fingerprints or face scans to use a laptop or for timekeeping. Many employees don't like the idea of giving their employer their biometric data and may have concerns over privacy issues or worry about a data breach. In most cases, employees have few privacy protections against employer-required biometric data. Only a few jurisdictions give employees a private right …
Deepfakes in Business: How Can You Protect Your Reputation?
If any of the 1.4 million fans of @deeptomcruise on TikTok or other social media don’t read the fine print, they may walk away from a video of Tom Cruise rhapsodizing over a strawberry Blow Pop and think it’s legit. (It’s not). The popular account exists solely to share deepfakes of the actor—fake videos named for the deep-learning artificial intelligence that helps users create them. While @deeptomcruise may be silly fun, the FBI predicts that this same kind of deepfake …
Delaware's Got Talent
Lawyer and Profundo Bono ensemble player Kiadii Harmon counts Moby Dick as a theater credit, and Judge Robert B. Young as a friendKiadii Harmon didn’t need to go to law school to learn this fundamental truth: “If a judge asks you to do something, you do it—even if it means agreeing before you know what you agreed to,” Harmon says, laughing. That’s what happened when Delaware Family Court Judge James McGiffin emailed Harmon in January and told him he had a musical opportunity for him. McGiffin, known for his love of music, wanted to make a funny COVID-19 singalong to help cheer up his good friend, Delaware …
Stopping the Scroll
Salene Mazur Kraemer says in a high-stress field, photography is a saving graceSalene Mazur Kraemer says her “obsession” with taking photos is rooted in her own changing visage. “I was born with a cleft lip and palette, and had 19 surgeries,” says the Pittsburgh bankruptcy lawyer. “My face kept changing every year as an adolescent, and I think that has a lot to do with my interest in photography.” Finding herself with some extra time on maternity leave in 2007, Kraemer dusted off her camera and reignited a lingering passion. “As a lawyer, there is so much …
Notes from Camp Quarantine
Lakai Vinson shares her take on pandemic lifeWhen we discovered personal injury lawyer Lakai Vinson blogs about marriage and motherhood at keepingupwiththevinsons.com, we had to get her take on virtual school, a full caseload, and Nintendo. The pandemic has been a challenging time for all of us. We have learned new things about our children, our spouses and even ourselves. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned during the pandemic. Know when it’s time to rally reinforcements My daughter is learning fractions, including dividing, …
The Cutting Edge
Self-defense training empowers Kate M. Reese—and gives her a heck of a bar storyKate M. Reese knows 72 ways to kill you—and the family law attorney doesn’t mean on cross. For nine years, she has been working her way through the ranks of krav maga, a form of self-defense that incorporates jujitsu and Filipino stick fighting. Throw in Reese’s side interest in sakeen (Hebrew for “knife”), and “It’s probably more like 150 ways now,” she says. Earlier in her career, Reese was stalked by opposing parties. While she says krav maga wasn’t a direct response, a …
Between a Rock and a Hard Case
When employment law litigation gets a little rocky, Cherie Blackburn goes for a climbCherie Blackburn didn’t mind being a beach girl. It was just easy: lie on towel, soak in sunshine, take a dip, repeat. “That was pretty much my only outdoor thing,” says the Nexsen Pruet employment litigator. “But I was at a place where my children were older, I had been working a lot, and I got it in my head that I wanted to go off and find adventure.” In 2002, she found an Outward Bound program that offered a nine-day, women’s-only crash course in rock climbing. “I just …
A Legacy to Savor
Lena Laurenzo carries on the spirit of her famous restaurateur-grandmother, Mama NinfaFan of fajitas? Then dig into the history of Houston’s legendary Mama Ninfa Laurenzo. The storied restaurateur’s legacy extends far beyond the kitchen, and her granddaughter, Lena B. Laurenzo, strives to keep it alive. “I am standing on the shoulders of many decades of hard work, blood, sweat, tears and, frankly, love,” she says. In 1949, Mama Ninfa and husband Domenic Laurenzo opened the Rio Grande Tortilla Factory in the East End. For years, the no-frills business operated as a …
Triple Threat
Lauren D. Fraser: lawyer, novelist and theater-production company ownerWhen it came to embracing her creative side, personal injury lawyer Lauren D. Fraser didn’t have much choice: Creativity was the family business. Her parents were performing artists who ran a regional professional theater, which allowed Fraser—who liked to write science fiction and poetry as a kid—to dip into playwriting, too. “Honestly, some of the stuff we were working on was probably inappropriate for a 15-year-old,” she says, laughing. “But it was a great place to grow up.” …
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