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
Driven
Jim Gilbert’s crusade for victims of unsafe vehiclesIn 1978, James L. Gilbert’s five-year-old daughter Kristine was run over by a car. “That memory is etched into my soul, and will never be forgotten,” he says. Kristine lost part of her leg that day; today she’s a nurse helping kids at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Gilbert, then a general practice attorney, had recently been asked to take on a lawsuit against Ford on behalf of a family of five who had burned to death in their Pinto after being rear-ended at a relatively low speed. The …
Can You Sue Your Lawyer for Malpractice in Colorado?
Lawyers can make mistakes. They can miss deadlines, fall asleep during a hearing, fail to interview key witnesses or respond to a motion. If your lawyer doesn’t get you the result you wanted, it makes sense to want to scrutinize their every misstep. But how do you know if their actions rise to the level of a legal malpractice lawsuit? You can start by calling an attorney who specializes in these types of claims. However, you might not like what they have to say. “I’m very selective …
'All the Fun Cases'
Judy Simmons Henry has battled cults and Ponzi schemes, and now reps NCAA players and coaches, tooJudy Simmons Henry likes to tell young lawyers to be in the office Friday afternoons. She’s not micromanaging—it’s a little secret for those who wish to become advisers to CEOs, as Henry herself desired in the early 1980s. It was at Wright Lindsey Jennings, her first and only firm, that Henry figured it out: Friday afternoons are when decision makers pick up the phone to address the thing that’s been stewing on their desk all week. One such afternoon, she found herself talking to the …
The Bulldog and the Scholar
How Tara Knight and Hugh Keefe became Connecticut’s criminal law power coupleThere was a moment during the infamous Beth Carpenter murder-for-hire trial that prosecutor Kevin Kane wondered if his opponent was about to go too far. Criminal defense attorney Hugh Keefe’s reputation had been built on his masterful cross-examinations, and now he was hammering into an important witness for the prosecution, Haiman Clein, Carpenter’s lover, colleague and alleged co-conspirator, who had turned against her. The salacious details of the Old Saybrook lawyers’ …
A Long Island Kid in Queen Elizabeth's Court
How Thomas Foley came to be both a lawyer in New York and a solicitor in LondonThomas Foley’s dialect confuses people almost as much as his professional trajectory. He pronounces coffee like the Long Island native he is even though he’s more likely to talk about afternoon tea. And when asked what it was like to move to London and take a position no U.S. citizen had ever held—judicial clerk and later lawyer to the Court of Appeal for England and Wales—this is his response: “Crikey, I was terrified. … I can’t tell you that many people from my law school …
Defending Against Ransomware: How Lawyers Help Fight Cyber Threats
It was a typical, busy week for attorney Lisa J. Sotto. While putting out multimillion-dollar ransomware fires, she was navigating an onslaught of Bitcoin demands from a denial-of-service group that had launched a series of cybercriminal attacks to show how it could cripple businesses. “It’s been bad for a few years,” she says. “It’s getting worse.” The Rise of Ransomware Threats A partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth and a leader in data breach work since 2005, Sotto says she’s never …
The 2 Billion Dollar Man
How R. Brent Wisner landed one of the largest product-defect jury awards in historyOn May 8, 2019, all eyes were on R. Brent Wisner as he stood before an Oakland jury to deliver closing arguments in the third Roundup lawsuit to go to trial. His clients, husband and wife Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a World War II veteran and schoolteacher, had both been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of using the weed killer. They claimed that the chemical glyphosate had caused their cancer and that manufacturer Monsanto knew and failed to warn of the risks. Their trial had been …
'Everywhere We Went, We Were First'
That’s how it feels to work side-by-side with trailblazer Sherrie SavettWhen Sherrie R. Savett was in eighth grade, she got to attend the Temple Law School graduation of the person she idolized most in the world—her father. He was 40 years old, a World War II veteran and Bronze Medal honoree, though she wouldn’t find out about that until after he died because he didn’t talk about his bravery. Instead, he came home quietly after the war, started his family, and in the tradition of his parents who survived the Depression with their delicatessen business, he …
Road Scholar
The well-traveled education of Alejandro MorenoNot many have had the cross-cultural upbringing Alejandro Moreno did. His was literal. Born in San Diego, he grew up in Playas de Tijuana. Every weekday while his father practiced business law in TJ, his mother commuted across the border to teach elementary school in the U.S. “We experienced the best of both cultures,” Moreno says. “I spoke Spanish to Dad and English to Mom. … My brother and I are comfortable in both cultures. We can speak to people from all different backgrounds and …
Comeback Drive
Former pro football player Hollynd Hoskins keeps going until the final whistle for clients like Curtis BrooksHollynd Hoskins was a rookie public defender in Arapahoe County in 1995 when she was tasked with representing Curtis Brooks, a homeless Black teen charged with the felony murder of a 24-year-old man in Aurora. The crime was big news because of the age of the four assailants—three 15-year-olds and one 13-year-old—and the stark details of the killing: a bullet to the head for some cash and a car. What was lesser known was how Brooks had come to be involved. His three co-defendants, all with …
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