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
Avoiding the Money Pit
How to keep your home renovation from becoming a nightmareScott D. Lehman has been practicing construction law for 25 years, crafting contracts and litigating disputes ranging from small residential projects to the New World Symphony’s concert hall. When he speaks to audiences about residential construction, he shows Tom Hanks in front of his disaster of a home in The Money Pit after everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Lehman, with Eisenberg Lehman in Coral Gables, admits even he has suffered through a remodel that tested his marriage: …
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 …
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 …
Fighting the Lien Machine
Options for homeowners when remodel work goes awryBefore Tiffanie D. Stasiak hired a contractor to renovate her kitchen, dining room and den, she made herself a regular spectator at one of the company’s current projects. For his home remodel, Ivan A. Sarkissian learned as much as he could—through reviews and interviews—before he started the project. As construction attorneys in Denver’s booming market, they’ve both seen and litigated enough remodel-gone-wrong horror stories to know how important it is for homeowners to do their …
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