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
Staying Civil After 9/11
Three civil rights lawyers—Michael Ratner, Arthur Eisenberg and Manuel Vargas—and their organizations fight for our most basic rightsWhen the order came down in November 2001 giving the U.S. military the power to pick up and detain suspected terrorists anywhere in the world, Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), quickly decided he wanted his organization to represent the first detainees. Convincing the rest of the organization's leadership, however, was a tough sell. The Center was born in 1966 out of the Civil Rights movement. Ratner arrived in 1971, not so much to protect legal principles …
Eminent in Her Domain
Leslie Fields talks about an old book (The Good Earth), her book (Colorado Eminent Domain Practice) and the fundamental nature of owning propertyLeslie A. Fields is laughing as she takes the podium before a few dozen people in the Faegre & Benson meeting room on the 32nd floor of the Wells Fargo building. It’s nearing 5 p.m. in early December, and the scene is aglow with the holiday lights of downtown Denver. A colleague watching Fields whispers, “She’s beautiful,” and, indeed, the 50-year-old attorney has always looked years younger than her age. Only those who know the depth of her experience, those who have followed her …
The Supreme Warrior
Why Walter L. Gerash is one of the best lawyers in the whole motherbleeping countryScattered across Walter Gerash’s otherwise tidy living room are scrapbooks, loose papers and overflowing boxes that the 81-year-old lawyer is trying to organize. These are not depositions or court documents, by the way, but newspaper and magazine clippings, full-page layouts and cover stories about Gerash’s 52 years in law. There has been enough written about the man to literally fill a room. He finds an entire box with articles from the “Father’s Day Massacre” trial in 1992, when he …
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