About Bill Glose
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
Carter Country
In labor disputes, clients often bypass New York and Chicago firms to work with West Virginia’s Mark CarterFrom his seventh-floor office, Mark Carter can look at the weathered faces of industrial brick walls in downtown Charleston, beyond which are miles of forest. On a clear day, he can see the snow-capped Appalachians. The moaning of coal trains is a constant reminder that this is a city of blue-collar workers, the perfect place for Carter, who specializes in traditional labor law, employment law and labor relations for Dinsmore & Shohl. “Most of your waking hours are on the job,” says …
Chasing the Issue
Caroline Ciraolo always liked numbers; but it’s her people skills that make her a top tax controversy attorney“It’s not my fault! My accountant filled in the form.” Caroline Ciraolo can’t tell you how many meetings with new clients have begun with those words. Her practice focuses exclusively on white-collar defense and tax controversy, which means she handles tax matters for businesses and individuals, but not until they are in dispute. “We have clients who are non-filers and haven’t filed tax returns for a number of years,” says Ciraolo, a partner at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg. “They …
Great Privilege, Great Responsibility
Litigator and deacon Christopher Malone is committed to using the law to do good worksWhat do you do when a large man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia shows up in your reception area with all his possessions slung over his body in plastic bags? If you’re Christopher Malone, the 57-year-old president and managing director of ThompsonMcMullan, you invite him in. The big, scary fellow in question? Harold Burruss, a homeless veteran with a gentle heart and a tremendous sense of humor. Malone met Burruss while assisting a homeless organization called Freedom House and helped …
The Sharecropper’s Son
Colleagues say Ken Ravenell is one of the hardest-working lawyers in the state; but he says he knows what hard work really is“We thought she was dead the way she hit the ground,” says William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr., senior partner at Murphy PA in Baltimore. “Yeah, she went down like a sack of potatoes,” agrees Kenneth Ravenell, also of Murphy PA. “Ordinarily,” Murphy says, “you cross-examine the victim’s mother by saying, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry for your loss. We have no questions.’ The prosecution likes to put them on because they evoke emotional sympathy.” In this case, though, the mother was …
Protecting a Global Brand
Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ Ken Siegel helps craft a corporate culture that is globally minded and socially awareIn 2000, just two years after the company’s creation, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. lost a lawsuit that included a large damage award and created a precedent that could threaten its business. Reeling from the verdict, Starwood’s management decided to begin the new millennium by making some big changes. They brought in Ken Siegel. Siegel, then 44, was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who had already managed multiple company spin-offs and billion-dollar acquisitions. He joined …
The Can-Do Counsel
When Ann K. Sullivan rolls up her sleeves, problems get solved—by bake sale or legal brief“Clarence Thomas rarely asks questions,” says Ann K. Sullivan, a partner at the Norfolk firm of Crenshaw, Ware & Martin. “But he turned around, got something from his law clerk and pointed it out to Justice [John Paul] Stevens.” As the employment lawyer describes her experience at the U.S. Supreme Court, a smile fills her heart-shaped face. She mimes the actions, picking up an imaginary book, flipping its pages, then stabbing a finger at the researched piece of evidence. “At that …
Lien Machine
Deborah Hunt Devan is a stock speculator, a private investigator and a CEO; in other words, a bankruptcy lawyer“I call what I do the shock trauma of the law.” Deborah Hunt Devan, a Baltimore bankruptcy lawyer with Neuberger, Quinn, Gielen, Rubin & Gibber (NQGRG), is wearing thin frame glasses, a flowered cardigan and a polished stone necklace. A natural storyteller with an easygoing smile, the 61-year-old displays quiet charm; then you get a glimpse of the steel within. “When I meet a new client they’re almost always bleeding red ink, a lot of red ink,” she says. “You’ve got to make …
A Colorful Phenomenon
Buddy Allen tells us where we areWhen Everette G. “Buddy” Allen Jr. of LeClairRyan preps a case for trial, he likes to move away from his aircraft-carrier-sized desk in his 16th-floor office in the Federal Reserve Building to a small marble table stationed by his corner window. From this vantage point, looking over downtown Richmond, he can also plot the course of his life. To the north, blocked by several skyscrapers, are the dirt playing fields of his youth, a tough place, he says, “Where men were men and girls were, …
Some Little Ol’ Lawyer in Rockville
For 50 years, Albert D. Brault has fought for the righteous cause; he also changed lawAlbert D. Brault, 76, still gets butterflies before he argues a case. “Anybody who is not nervous is probably going to lose,” he says, “because if you’re not nervous you’re overconfident, and overconfidence doesn’t win anything for anybody.” Brault began practicing law in 1958 at his father’s firm in D.C. These days, he runs his practice out of Rockville, in a three-story A-frame with a cozy fireplace and creaking wood floors. Except for the necessary office equipment, most …
‘Brace for Impact’
Venable’s James Hanks Jr. was the last passenger out of Flight 1549More than a million. That’s how many miles James Hanks Jr., a partner at Venable in Baltimore, guesses he’s flown in his lifetime. For 40 years, he has specialized in Maryland corporate law—he is, in fact, the author of the 600-page treatise Maryland Corporation Law—which is second only to Delaware as the governing law of New York Stock Exchange-listed companies. Which means three or four times per month, Hanks takes to the air on business. His flights aren’t limited to the States. …
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