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
The Deal of the Art
The problematic past (stolen antiquities) and problematic future (AI) of art lawIn 2018, Laura Young was browsing her local Goodwill in Austin, Texas, when a marble bust caught her eye. Upon feeling its 52-pound weight, she was pretty sure it was worth more than its $34.99 price tag and promptly bought it. In the car, she carefully strapped the head with a seatbelt—a photo that would later be widely circulated in newspapers around the world—and went home to start calling auction houses. A Sotheby’s provenance researcher was able to identify it as a 2,000-year-old …
What To Do if Your Employer’s Disability Insurer Rejects Your Claim
Filing any disability claim—and especially disputing a denial—can be daunting. “People don’t know where to begin,” says Geannina Burgos of the Dabdoub Law Firm in Coral Gables, Florida, who represents employees in disputes with employer-sponsored disability insurance companies. “Even though, statistically, one out of four people have to file some type of disability claim in their lifetime.” Filing for disability and have legal questions? Consult with an attorney to ensure the best …
Make Your Company’s M&A Deal Succeed with Legal Due Diligence
Due diligence is verifying the facts about something you want to buy. It's a key step in any big purchase, and even more so when it's your business that is looking to merge with or acquire a target company. Because companies are complex entities, merger and acquisition (M&A) due diligence can be complicated. It's not a process that a business owner can do alone. M&A transaction teams handle different parts of the deal. A critical part of M&A due diligence is legal review. For this, …
When To Hire a Mergers and Acquisitions Attorney
As a business owner, a merger or acquisition is a defining event in the life of your company. Regardless of the type of deal, legalities shape every aspect of an M&A transaction, and the legal issues are very different from other business challenges. An M&A attorney will help you through the process to avoid costly errors and ensure a desirable outcome for your business. If you have an upcoming M&A deal, talk to a local M&A attorney for legal advice. Benefits of Using an …
What Laws Apply When Sailing on a Cruise Ship?
As many travelers re-boarded cruise ships following the COVID-19 pandemic, the mom of Heather Ragone, a transportation & maritime lawyer at Gallo Vitucci Klar in New York City, was among them. She arrived at port for a cruise out of New York with her negative COVID-19 test and fully completed vaccine card in hand. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had ended its program of monitoring case numbers on cruise ships. Likewise, restrictions around masks or quarantining …
Fighting Long-Term Care Abuse in Colorado
As a lawyer who has sued nursing homes for abuse and neglect, Anna Holland Edwards can give advice on how to prove such claims in the state of Colorado, but she knows it’s more important to first talk about how to prevent the kinds of cases she sees most often: wrongful death. Find the Right Long-Term Care Facility “I see a lot of preventable deaths, especially falls, a lot of infections that are caught really late, and dehydration,” says the civil rights and wrongful death attorney at …
The Multifaceted Dr. Funk
Renaissance man Markus Funk on Kosovo, the Casino trials, and the battle against human traffickingWhen Dr. T. Markus Funk stood in a packed courtroom in downtown Chicago in 2007 to deliver a five-hour closing argument in the biggest mob murder prosecution in U.S. history, he knew the long line of onlookers wasn’t there to see him. They wanted to catch a glimpse of Frank Calabrese Sr. and the other mobsters made famous by Martin Scorsese in Casino, who were being prosecuted for the same brutal homicides the movie depicted. “It’s a weird thing, but people fawn over these guys,” he …
‘I Was Lucky’
Danny Abir’s journey from Iran to building law firmsDanny Abir says he wouldn’t change a thing. Not fleeing Iran at age 16 to avoid being drafted into a war, and leaving behind his family and everything he knew. Not those first lonely years in the U.S., and working full-time through undergrad, law school and two LLMs. Not even the failed law partnership that left him restarting in his 40s. “Everything in my life has a reason,” he says of the long road toward founding Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo. “I believe true happiness is finding what you …
Press Briefing
Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma loved being a reporter; he just wanted a deeper diveIn 1992, decades before he’d take on the Drug Enforcement Agency as a criminal defense attorney, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma had a source leak him a DEA file linking a prominent Mexican politician to drug trafficking and the murder of a journalist. Just 24 years old and a few months into his job as a reporter at an English-language newspaper in Mexico City, the Boston native wrote it up and submitted it to his editor three days before its subject would be elected governor of Puebla. The paper’s …
First Served
Sam Alba’s long and storied legal legacyIn the midst of Sam Alba’s two-decade tenure as Utah’s first Latino federal judge, he was assigned preliminary work on a racketeering case in which a Black female assistant U.S. attorney was prosecuting a dozen white supremacists. Among their accused crimes: seven attempted murders on behalf of the Soldiers of Aryan Culture, a gang that allegedly ran a methamphetamine ring throughout Utah. Those charged were already serving time in state prison, and Alba had decided to keep them there. …
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