About Candice Dyer
Candice Dyer’s writing has appeared in Men’s Journal, Country Living, HGTV online, Georgia Trend, Garden & Gun, Paste, and other publications, and she was a staff writer at Atlanta magazine. Her book Street Singers, Soul Shakers, and Rebels With a Cause: Music from Macon was published by Indigo Press.
Articles written by Candice Dyer
John Mayoue Declines to Comment
The notoriously tight-lipped celebrity divorce lawyer opens up … but not about Jane, M.J. and UsherWhen celebrity divorce attorney John C. Mayoue was growing up, he never met a celebrity. He also never met an attorney. He didn’t even encounter a divorce. “The population of my rural hometown was 44 people,” says Mayoue (pronounced “May-you”), born and bred in West Rush, New York, in the Finger Lakes area. “You hear about two-stoplight towns? We didn’t even have one stoplight, just corn and cattle. I guess there wasn’t a real need for lawyers then, either, because I wasn’t …
Hugging It Out with Teresa Wynn Roseborough
The self-described Brown v. Board of Education baby embraces The Home DepotLong before women in powersuits debated the “Lean In” approach, Teresa Wynn Roseborough was taking that posture a degree or two further. “I’m a hugger,” she says, before enthusiastically embracing every new acquaintance like long-lost family in her office at The Home Depot Inc. headquarters in Atlanta. “She’s nothing if not consistent,” says Bruce Yannett of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. “She hugs guys as well as women, in almost every setting and context. The first …
And the Children’s Lawyer Shall Lead
J.Tom Morgan would like Georgia to rank higher than 49th on everything involving kidsJ.Tom Morgan’s Facebook account cannot accept any more friend requests. While a handful of the 59-year-old attorney’s contacts are colleagues and other gray-haired professionals, most are teenagers. “I’m at the 5,000 limit, with another 1,500 or so kids trying to be my friend, and I’m really irritated at Facebook’s legal office for not responding to my requests to up the limit,” he says. “I’m uncomfortable making it a fan page because of confidentiality.” Morgan, a solo …
One of the Last Southern Gentlemen
Philip C. Henry is the very soul of understatementIt was like a scene out of a schlocky hospital drama. In the middle of a medical malpractice case involving a cervical spine injury, a juror tripped while stepping out of the box and smacked her head, hard, against the railing. “Laid her out flat,” recalls Philip C. Henry, of Henry Spiegel Milling, a personal injury firm in Atlanta. “It was the strangest thing.” The physician charged with malpractice rushed to the juror’s aid. Henry, of course, was representing the plaintiff. “911 …
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