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Carlos Harrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, two-time Emmy nominee, and author of 16 books ranging from biographies to legal issues (e.g., The Ghosts of Hero Street, Trained to Kill, and The Memorandum). A graduate of the University of South Florida, his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Miami Herald, People, and other publications. Several of his articles for Super Lawyers have won awards from the Society for Professional Journalists.

Articles written by Carlos Harrison

Doing the Right Thing

Aviation litigator Aaron Podhurst, nearing 90, is at the top of his game

With more than 60 years of practice under his belt, Aaron Podhurst exudes the fluid ease of a basketball star—along with a keen and affable manner that has made him one of the world’s leading plaintiff’s aviation lawyers.  And if affability isn’t enough? “He’s got that great Old Testament voice,” says complex business litigator Harley Tropin, who’s been on both sides of matters with him over some 30 years. “The judges pay attention to Aaron.” It was basketball that sent …

What Makes Super Lawyers Listees Super?

Profiler-in-residence Carlos Harrison on the people he’s met

One attorney had a python dangling from her kitchen chandelier. Another once impersonated Elvis on a Vegas stage—and could prep a Domino’s pizza in 44 seconds flat. Yet another tried to bring Anna Nicole Smith’s body home to Texas.    Those are just a few of the attorneys I’ve met over the last decade-and-a-half writing for Super Lawyers magazines. I’ve come across stories of persistence, of resistance, and of dedication to the greater good. Sometimes all in the same …

Curbelo’s Kids

For immigration lawyer Carolina Curbelo, every case is a relationship

If Carolina Curbelo had been better at math, she might not be a lawyer. And if her parents hadn’t immigrated to the U.S., there might have been no one to help the young Nigerian boy who learned to play chess in a New York City homeless shelter and was at risk of being harmed by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Instead, he’s on track to become one of the youngest grandmasters ever. And if another kid hadn’t convinced her she should become an immigration attorney—though at one point …

Front-Runner

In the world of horse racing, W. Craig Robertson III does more than observe

It takes more than horse sense to practice equine law. W. Craig Robertson III’s cases involve everything from the land under the horses’ hooves to the jockeys on their backs—and the owners, vets and trainersin between.       It’s high-stakes, high-tech, and very, very tradition-bound. The racehorses at the center of it all are elite athletes, exquisitely bred and painstakingly prepared. Their training alone can run into the millionsof dollars. Yet deals are …

Protecting Your Child from International Parental Child Abduction

It’s a terrifying but real possibility: A parent in a broken relationship kidnaps the couple’s child and flees to a foreign country. It could be months or even years before the child is returned. So much depends upon where they flee. “Whatever court order they get in Texas is not going to be recognized in, for example, China,” says Houston family law attorney Laura Dale. “Now, that doesn’t mean that Texas can’t issue an order, and that parent might be violating federal laws with …

‘Our Powers for Good’

How Kyle Farrar and Mark Bankston won a $49 million jury award against InfoWars for Sandy Hook parents

Houston attorneys Kyle Farrar and Mark Bankston knew taking on Alex Jones and InfoWars would put them on the front line of a national culture war. At the time, Bankston recalls, the incendiary right-wing internet and radio personality “was at the height of his powers,” with an audience in the millions worldwide. “The idea of holding InfoWars accountable for telling a lie at that point was sort of a revolutionary idea.” So they anticipated the threats, accusations and conspiracy theories …

The People Part

Elaine Bucher is as knowledgeable as they come on estate law, but it’s the human side that sets her apart

In Elaine Bucher’s spare, orderly office, two equidistant chairs—angled symmetrically—face a desk that’s practically pristine. Four photos of her family are spaced evenly on a shelf behind the desk, and a recently acquired painting of a dancer—a gift—bears the words: “And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong and full of fire … and her passion burned brighter than her fears.” Together, the pictures, the painting and the punctilious office reflect the vital …

Land of Opportunity

Andrés Correa believes that’s an ideal worth striving for

Andrés Correa remembers the violence: first as a child in Chile, when the military fired on protesters trying to oust dictator Augusto Pinochet; then as an immigrant in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans, where Correa witnessed two knifings. “It was not the America I had seen in the movies,” says Correa, now a commercial litigator and the first Latino partner at Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann in Dallas. “It was very visible that there was inequality and injustice in the United …

Raoul Cantero's Supreme Detour

The first Hispanic justice on the state’s high court set out to be more Grisham than gavel-wielder

The first Hispanic justice on Florida’s Supreme Court didn’t set out to make history—at least, not in the legal arena. “My ambition was to be a writer, a novelist, a sometime-guest on The Tonight Show.” That’s how Raoul Cantero put it in a bio for his undergraduate alma mater. On a recent spring day, he adds, “The last part was a joke, but the novelist part was absolutely true.”  Getting a law degree was just a way to pay the bills until he made it as an author. The …

Forward March

Two decades have brought big change—including a Hague custody niche—to Zashin & Rich

Two decades ago, when Andrew Zashin suggested taking on Hague Convention international child-custody cases, his father, Robert, didn’t exactly see the upside. Robert had co-founded the Cleveland family and employment law firm now run by sons Andrew and Stephen. “He said, ‘I just don’t see how this is going to work. There aren’t enough cases,’” recalls Andrew, the elder son. “I said, ‘Dad, there are more than people realize.” The problem, he said, was that lawyers and courts …

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