About Carlos Harrison
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.
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Second to None
To overcome racism, Elaine Johnson James' mother told her, she'd have to work harder than everybody else. She did.On her first day at a new high school in 1965, Elaine Johnson James was met by a welcoming committee of sorts: picketers, carrying protest signs and shouting racial slurs at her as she made her way to the door. She was among the first group of Black children to enter a formerly all-white school on Chicago’s South Side. She was 12. Yes, 12. We’ll get back to that. When she got home, her father asked if she had been afraid. “I told him, ‘No, I was annoyed,’” she recalls. She’s been …
How To Find a Good Personal Injury Attorney
Choosing the right personal injury lawyer can be an intimidating prospect. It's a task that will involve more than a simple Google search or online ad. You will have to consult with personal injury lawyers to figure out who is a good fit for you and your case. Personal injury law is a huge practice area and covers many legal issues. It includes everything from wrongful death, car accidents, property damage, and product liability to medical malpractice cases. When a person or company causes you …
Speaking for Survivors
Richard Schulte and Michael Wright represent sexual-abuse victims of former OSU physician Richard StraussThe allegations of abuse spanned 20 years. Twenty more passed before Ohio State University publicly acknowledged them and launched an investigation that identified 177 victims. All young male athletes. Wrestlers, fencers, swimmers and more. OSU students mostly, but high schoolers, too. That was just the beginning. The findings triggered a cascade of suits accusing former athletic department physician Richard Strauss of groping, raping or otherwise sexually abusing students. More than 500 have …
Getting Tech Off the Ground
Airbus’ flying car is just one of the cutting-edge projects Sasha Rao gets to work onIt’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a pilotless urban air vehicle whisking commuters to their destinations. OK, so not yet. But if that Jetsons-style future ever gets off the ground, it will be thanks in part to people like Sasha Rao, who says the biggest obstacle is not the swiftly developing technology, it’s the law. “There are probably over 50, probably a hundred companies in the [electric aircraft] space,” says Rao, who practices intellectual property litigation at Maynard, …
Family Matters
Jeanne Tate’s life’s work is about bringing parents and children togetherDozens upon dozens of children—from infants to teens—beam from photos covering the walls of Jeanne Tate’s Tampa firm, and a remarkable number of them bear her name. Boys named Tate, girls named Jeanne, some with Tate’s last name hyphenated to their own in a lifelong tribute for making their families possible. Tate’s family law practice handles only adoptions and surrogacies, and she also runs a full-fledged adoption agency. The photos on her wall are a tiny fraction of the 4,000 …
Stirred, Not Shaken
Contract lawyer by day, Marc Kaliser raises mixology to a fine artMarc Kaliser has spent a lot of time behind bars. Those would be cocktail bars. The transactional lawyer and partner in Munck Wilson Mandala’s corporate law group in Dallas has transformed himself into a mixologist—a devotee of the lore of drink-making. In pre-pandemic times, he hosted events at his and friends’ homes and tended bar at parties. He also gives instructional demos to folks who request them on social media. His Instagram: @gallicaudae (Latin for “cocktails”). After …
Fighting 'Forever Chemicals'
How Rob Bilott's life became a mission to hold DuPont accountableIt began with a phone call he could barely understand. It became his life’s work, spurring two class-action lawsuits and a series of individual ones. It spawned dozens of magazine and newspaper articles, a movie and a book; and earned Rob Bilott, partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister’s Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati offices, the Right Livelihood Award, an international honor for tackling global problems that is often dubbed the “alternative Nobel Prize.” And more than 20 …
The Well-Grounded Career of Debbie Alsup
This Austin litigator has helped make Texas law—while making life better for abused childrenDebbie Alsup landed in law after her original high-flying plans were brought down to earth in college. Blame Baylor. Or thank it. “I wanted to be a pilot,” she says. After spending nearly 40 years at Thompson & Knight, and taking part in more than 100 appellate cases in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, Alsup chuckles as she reflects on the happy accident that launched her legal life. Her ambition to become a commercial airline pilot began in high school, …
Game Plan
Bill Stark covers all the legal bases for his interactive-entertainment clientsWhen it comes to video games and esports, Bill Stark isn’t playing around. The Dallas-based Greenberg Traurig shareholder is co-chair—and co-founder—of the firm’s international video game and esports group, an innovative practice team that combines practice areas ranging from intellectual property and sports law to real estate and immigration. It involves 25 associates and shareholders in a dozen locations, including Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo. Stark and co-chair Steven Walkowiak …
'Women Don't Become Attorneys'
Happily for her clients and the lawyers she’s mentored along the way, Roberta Mandel didn’t take that adviceMadame X was an inspiration; Anna Nicole Smith, a revelation. Both changed Roberta Mandel’s life. Mandel maintains a richly varied solo practice, but when she started off, her focus was on appellate work. She had already handled close to 700 appeals by the time she was called in to help with the sensational battle over the burial of Smith’s body in 2007. The media melee thrust her front-and-center in the saga surrounding the former Playboy centerfold, ex-stripper, and octogenarian …
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