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
Colorado Adoption Process: What To Expect
When Seth A. Grob began practicing adoption law 30 years ago, he would get a call a week from an adoptee searching for their biological parents. Back then, in about 90 percent of infant adoptions, the adoptive parents knew very little about their child’s birth parents and the information was difficult to uncover. “That has completely changed,” says Grob, whose Lakewood firm, Grob & Eirich, represents eight adoption agencies in Colorado. “Most adoptions today are open in the sense …
A More Global View
Why Eugene criminal defense attorney Rosalind Lee donned the robes for mental health courtFor six years, criminal defense attorney Rosalind M. Lee saw the justice system from a whole new vantage point: the bench. “It’s literally a different view,” she says. “My interactions with prosecutors and defense attorneys, police officers and the jail are completely different. There are a lot of like-minded people who are trying to do the right thing. You don’t see that the same way when you’re an advocate. As a judge, you see a more global view.” In 2014, in addition to …
Using Her Elbows
Runner Haley Krug carries her competitiveness into the legal arenaThere is only one loss that haunts Haley Krug—and it didn’t happen in the courtroom. It was the Washington state track championship during her senior year of high school. Krug had been running competitively since the eighth grade, after winning her very first mile race. She’d been trying to chase that feeling, and this race—just two miles, or eight laps around the track—was the culmination of hundreds of hours of training. She came in one one-hundredth of a second behind the …
Better Late
At 59, Mary Caruso became an attorney—and that’s not the twist to her story“I have a mouth on me,” says Mary Caruso. “You can pretty much ask me anything.” That’s good, because the 67-year-old plaintiff’s attorney at AlderLaw in Los Angeles has one helluva story to share—with a great twist ending. And, believe it or not, the twist isn’t that she left the corporate world after 25 years and became a lawyer at age 59. Caruso takes considerable pride in her nontraditional path to the law. She went to work at age 15 to support her family when her …
The Human Element
Even plaintiff’s lawyers salute Mike O’Donnell’s decencyWhen the verdict was read, Mike O’Donnell did not celebrate. Over the course of nine weeks in 2016, he had defended Michelin in a high-stakes trial in Florida. The plaintiffs, alleging that defective tires caused a highway rollover crash that left two teenagers with catastrophic brain injuries, were asking the jury for between $80 million and $1.2 billion in damages. The courtroom was packed with supporters of the family when the jury read its decision: a defense verdict. O’Donnell wished …
How To Keep a Home Renovation Free of Trouble
When homeowners notice things — flooring that needs upgrades, paint colors that need to be spruced up, or roofing that needs replacing — that means business for licensed contractors. When choosing your contractor, do so carefully and ensure you have a construction contract for your home renovation project. If things go wrong, and you need to take legal action, contact a construction litigation attorney for legal advice. Legal Action for Home Improvement and Remodeling Projects "The legal …
Madigan, Bargain Again
Denise Madigan helps teach female professionals to negotiate for themselvesDenise Madigan believes negotiation is a skill that can be taught, practiced and improved upon. Her own story proves it. Before earning her J.D. from Harvard and embarking on a 30-year career as a professional mediator, she came out of grad school and accepted the first salary she was offered. She told herself she was lucky to get the job and didn’t want to risk losing the opportunity by appearing too demanding. “I subsequently learned this is something a lot of women do, and it ends up …
Vindicating Victims
Why did Trump supporter Douglas H. Wigdor take on Fox News? The same reason he’s sued the Weinstein Company, NY1 and, yes, UberDouglas H. Wigdor is no stranger to the spotlight. At his eponymous firm, he represents victims of discrimination and sexual assault against high-profile defendants such as Uber, Harvey Weinstein and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. He recently made headlines as the Trump-supporting conservative leading a crusade against the president’s favorite media outlet, Fox News, having filed an onslaught of racial- and gender-discrimination suits against the company at the same time news of sexual harassment …
Tales Out of School
Timothy J. Mullins represents school districts and their myriad legal issuesConsider some of the most controversial issues of our time: gun violence, sexual harassment, transgender rights, and the ramifications of rapidly changing technology. Timothy J. Mullins gets to weigh in on all of them, thanks to a practice area that is as niche as it is varied: school law. “Everything in society comes to schools, so if you have something happening in the community, you’re going to see it at school,” he says. Over 30 years, it has gone from one aspect of Mullins’ …
Antiques Homeshow
How Arthur Saito came to steward an Asian art collectionWhen Arthur K. Saito was just 5 years old, he was captivated by a small framed symbol hanging on the wall of his family’s home in California. His parents were both immigrants, and his father, an artist from Japan, filled their house with paintings and statues from East and West: ceramics, woodblock prints, sculpture and breathtaking embroidered silk screens. The symbol on the wall that captured Saito’s attention was a Japanese calligraphy print of the Chinese character for tiger. “It was …
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