About Bill Glose

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A combat veteran and former paratrooper, Bill Glose is the author of five books of poetry and one book of fiction, All the Ruined Men, published in 2022 by St. Martin’s Press. A regular contributor to Super Lawyers, his work has also appeared in numerous publications, including Army Times, The Writer, Narrative Magazine and The Sun. His honors include the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Award, the Robert Bausch Fiction Award, and the Dateline Award for Excellence in Journalism. Glose was named the Daily Press Poet Laureate in 2011 and featured by NPR on The Writer’s Almanac in 2017. He maintains a page of helpful information for writers on his website BillGlose.com.

Articles written by Bill Glose

Judge Not

Marc Williams defends the West Virginia chief justice

While most of the nation watched a presidential impeachment from afar this year, Marc Williams had a front-row seat in 2018 when the West Virginia House of Delegates attempted to impeach all five state Supreme Court justices over alleged misappropriation of funds.  Williams and his legal team at Nelson Mullins in Huntington represented Chief Justice Margaret L. Workman. He felt the impeachment argument failed to consider the state’s constitutional arrangement regarding authority over …

'We Know Our Clients'

The joys and concerns (mostly joys) of being a rural lawyer

While practicing in Atlanta for 27 years, Ralph Ellis, a Social Security disability, workers’ comp and real estate lawyer with an eponymous firm, would spend many weekends in a log cabin his grandparents built in Clayton. In the spring of 2019, the small town’s pull just became too great. “As John Muir wrote, ‘The mountains are calling and I must go,’” Ellis says with a smile.  In Clayton, population 2,250, Ellis has kept that smile. “My rent is approximately one-third of the …

The Bold Type

Cheryl Hepfer bloodied her forehead against glass ceilings so the next class of women lawyers didn’t have to

On Cheryl Hepfer’s first day of law school, a professor sporting a gold watch zeroed in on her. She expected to be challenged—it was 1969, after all. Not even 5 feet tall, Hepfer seemed an easy target. But she stood her ground as he grilled her for an hour, many of his questions inappropriate. The next class, she brought a gold watch similar to her professor’s. She sat up front, chin raised, and set the watch on her table before crossing her arms and settling in. “If he wanted to go at …

The Legal Concerns of Working Remotely

There’s a quiet revolution underway: More and more of us are working from home. With telecommuting and mobile worksites, workers can access the company database from anywhere on the globe. Unlike most revolutions, this one works for both sides. Employees avoid traffic, enjoy a flex lifestyle, and can even work in their sweatpants, while companies avoid overhead. “The employer is saving major dollars by having a virtual office where nobody is in the same place,” says New York employment …

‘I Wanted to Sue Everybody’

The arrest that made a lawyer out of Nina Ginsberg

It was 1974, and Nina Ginsberg was outraged. She’d been working as a court liaison for a drug recovery program in Rochester, New York, interfacing with the local courts to divert drug offenders into the program instead of jail. She was so committed to the work that when clients didn’t show up for appointments, she would wander the housing projects at night, looking for them. “I went places I should have realized might be dangerous,” she says today. “I had this friend who used to say I …

Cruz Control

Levin & Gann’s first female managing partner keeps things steady with levelheaded calmness

Last year, Levin & Gann appointed the first female managing partner in the firm’s century-long history: Debra Cruz, a lawyer in the Towson office who specializes in family law, and who possesses a quality that makes her perfect for the position.  “She brings tranquility,” says partner Stanford Gann Sr. “She does a great job in keeping things level and calm. Dealing with 20-something lawyers is challenging.” Sharp-featured, with short blonde hair, Cruz has a quiet, confident air …

‘Justice Ultimately Prevails’

Mark Cummings defended Mark Felt before the world learned he was Deep Throat

When Mark Cummings was at Leonard, Cohen, Gettings & Sher in 1978, his boss, Brian Gettings, represented William Tucker. Tucker was one of the FBI agents being investigated as a fallout of 1972’s warrantless searches on the terror group Fatah, and on Weather Underground, a homegrown group that bombed numerous government offices. Cummings, Gettings and Tucker were at the DOJ awaiting Tucker’s grand jury appearance when former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt showed up.  “The DOJ was …

The Real Challenge

Like Tolstoy, Reeves Mahoney knows that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Back in the days when emergency rooms could stitch up a woman who’d been beaten senseless and release her back into the hands of her abusive husband without reporting the incident to police, Reeves Mahoney, in 1986, introduced a legal concept untested in Virginia during a murder trial in Norfolk: The Battered-Spouse Syndrome. “When I put the psychologist on, he got about one-fifth of the way into his testimony, and Judge McNamara stopped it and he asked counsel to come back in his …

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Estate Planning

Steven Widdes lightened the mood with self-deprecating humor

With a steady, green-eyed gaze and a bent nose, broken during one of the few times he ventured to play hockey, Steven Widdes bears the features of a serious man, a helpful trait in his line of work. As principal at Rockville’s Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong Driscoll and co-chair of his firm’s estates and trusts practice group, Widdes has seen just about everything when it comes to wills. He’s even been party to that rarest of occurrence, which bad TV dramas often use as a go-to plot …

A Star in Star City

Growing up on a tobacco farm, Brett Marston learned the value of hard work. Now he reaps the rewards

Brett Marston conveys the confidence of a man who has it all—the easy smile, the athletic frame, the marriage to his college sweetheart, the corner office.  As the chair of Gentry Locke’s construction law practice, he has won scores of significant verdicts and settlements for his clients. And after 23 years, he’s still thrilled every time the phone rings. “No two cases are alike,” he says. “You might be filing a mechanic’s lien, a lawsuit, a Freedom of Information Act request; …

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