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.
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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.” …
Electoral College Dropout
After stymieing Kanye West’s bid to run for president in New Jersey, Scott Salmon wonders, does anybody make real petitions anymore?Scott Salmon has no problem telling you this whole thing was born of his own “righteous indignation and incredulousness.” He couldn’t help it—Kanye West just brought out the employment and elections attorney’s inner New Jerseyan. Not to say Salmon doesn’t like West’s music. He bops to the deep cuts. But when West tried to get on New Jersey’s 2020 presidential ballot, the track skipped. “At a certain point, it just became so ridiculous that it was insulting,” Salmon says. …
Not Scott Turow's Last Trial
After 14 books and 40 years in the law, the bestselling author is still going strongScott Turow is feeling deliciously unpeopled. He and his wife, Adriane, have foregone their Chicago and Florida homes in favor of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, to ride out the pandemic—and, for the perennial New York Times bestseller Turow, to write. “We have a country place that has ended up being our principal residence in the days of the virus,” he says. “We're out here, in a relatively unpeopled area, and my wife has this beautiful, huge garden. It’s a nice world to be in.” …
Called Up
Ariel Roberson went from pro soccer player to business litigator and children’s book publisherA soccer phenom growing up, at 15 Ariel H. Roberson got called up to the U.S. U-16 National Team. But a week later, she tore her ACL. “It was devastating,” she says. Once she recovered, she continued to train with the hopes of playing in college and beyond. But her senior year, she tore her other ACL. “I worked really hard to get back after that second injury,” Roberson says. It paid off, and she played through college at UNC (in 2006, her junior year, UNC won the national …
Changing the System
Starling Underwood works behind the screen to improve access to justiceStarling Underwood likes the analytic nature of his work as a senior lawyer on Kilpatrick Townsend’s e-discovery team. He likes the thrill of the hunt for hot documents and the rhythm of his research; the preparation required to outline critical issues for the case attorneys in advance of depositions. But he also likes helping people in a more tangible way. He reflects on the many weekends as a 7th-grade student that he spent sitting around the kitchen table of a family friend who, …
Philadelphia Police Reform: New Laws To Know for Citizens
Philadelphia voters overwhelmingly approved two police reform measures on the 2020 ballot. Stop and Frisk The first ballot measure aims to amend the city’s “stop and frisk” practice. “Essentially, a police officer has to have a reasonable belief or suspect that a crime was in the process of being committed, had been committed or was going to be committed very soon,” says criminal defense lawyer Justin Capek with Philadelphia’s Schatz, Steinberg & Klayman. “A police …
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