About Jessica Glynn
Jessica Centers Glynn is a writer and teacher in Denver, Colorado. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and her award-winning reporting has also appeared in The Anniston Star and Westword.
Articles written by Jessica Glynn
Sibling Synergy
For Macey Reasoner Stokes and Barrett Reasoner, giving back is part of the jobWhen Macey Reasoner Stokes and Barrett Reasoner took the stage in 2025 as the first siblings to receive the Anti-Defamation League Southwest’s Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award, it was a special honor for Mace and Bear, as they call one another. Their father, attorney Harry Reasoner—who once received the same distinction—was in attendance. And both he and their mom, also named Macey, have previously been honored with the ADL’s Torch of Liberty Award. The night was made even more …
Without Remedy, Is It a Right?
What basic civil rights do you actually have?While explaining the gap between what the U.S. Constitution promises and the reality of what a civil rights lawyer can accomplish in a courtroom, Austin civil rights attorney Laura Goettsche recalls something a professor said in law school. People often called him after an arrest to say the police did such-and-such, and they wanted to know: Can they do that? And the answer was always yes. They can because they did. “It’s important to have a good understanding of what your rights are, but it …
‘Very Real, But Not Always Fair’
War in Bosnia-Herzegovina and injustice in Detroit forged Aida Spahic into an advocateAida Spahic was 8 years old when she remembers the first bombs dropping in Mostar, the scenic city in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Dinaric Alps, its iconic 16th century stone arch bridge stretching across the emerald Neretva River. During the following years in the early ’90s, she remembers: fighting to go to school, ushering her brothers downstairs when bomb sirens went off, giving a fake non-Muslim sounding name if a soldier approached, and walking in a zigzag pattern to make herself a difficult …
Your Rights as a Debtor
Debt collectors are not allowed to harass or pressure youNo one wants to get a call from a debt collector. But if you do, it’s common to either act hastily out of fear, or do nothing out of embarrassment. Consumer protection attorneys instead urge debtors to stay calm, ask questions, document everything, and know there are laws designed to protect you. “A lot of people, when they fall behind on debt, believe that they might be helpless, but it’s important for them to know that they have rights,” says Anthony Gonzalez, a Plantation attorney …
Fear on the Streets
What to know—even if you’re a U.S. citizen—to protect yourself against ICELos Angeles immigration lawyer Navid Dayzad was leading a “know your rights” presentation to employees of a company he represents—a growing part of his practice meant to calm people’s nerves about immigration investigations at work—when someone asked him what recourse they have if at the airport they’re singled out because of the color of their skin. “It breaks my heart that in America people have to worry about this,” says Dayzad, who’s an immigrant himself. He was a toddler …
When the Check Is Not in the Mail
How to handle overdue customer accountsWhen it comes to collecting overdue debts, the key is to not make a bad situation worse, say Atlanta lawyers who focus on creditor-debtor law. “The best type of letter is very vanilla,” says Douglas Tozzi with Tozzi Law in Decatur. “‘Hey, this is what is owed. We’d like to give you an opportunity to pay. If you don’t, we’ll have to look at our options.’ Something to that effect. Not threatening or making it anything more than it needs to be.” Too often, he sees creditors doing …
Fighting for Her Values
Sarah London has led multidistrict litigations against Uber, Juul and othersIt was day 16 of the 2026 Uber sexual assault civil trial, and Sarah London was listening to the defense’s closing argument. While mentally preparing the last words the jurors would hear from her, she felt both moved and determined to not let down Jaylynn Dean—the woman who came forward after she was raped by her Uber driver at 19—nor the team of female trial lawyers London had assembled from across the country as liaison counsel for more than 3,000 similar sexual assault cases. “There …
Wingman
Pilot Bob Williams keeps things steady for aviation industry clientsAviation attorney Bob Williams was piloting a cross-country flight when the collision avoidance system in his plane alerted him that another aircraft was coming too close. “I said to myself, ‘Any time now, air traffic control will be giving me a warning. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it?’” It never came. As he broke through the clouds to approach the airport, he again knew there were other planes heading toward runways, and he again was given no warning beyond what his aircraft and …
Keeping Families Together
Ofelia Calderón on why that mission has gotten harderBefore Ofelia Calderón can describe what it’s like practicing immigration law during the second Trump term, she pulls over at a rest stop on I-95. She’s running late, still driving the 165 miles back to Fairfax from Farmville Detention Center, where she met with a client stuck in jail without bond. Like so many of her clients of late, she says, he was arrested with no criminal charges, picked up by ICE on his way to work. It’s hard not to feel pessimistic, Calderón notes, but she …
‘The Bow Tie Guy’
At a time when it’s easy to sit down and be quiet, John McHugh stands up as an LGBTQ advocateJohn McHugh stops mid-sentence to let out a warm, disarming laugh at his own expense before admitting he’d never given pro bono work much thought until the day in 2012 when two partners at Reilly Pozner came into his office. They were thinking about challenging Colorado’s ban on gay marriage, and asked if he could introduce them to anyone in the LGBTQ advocacy community. McHugh, now a director at Fennemore, was a young associate then. He was also new to Colorado, having followed his husband …
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