About Jessica Ogilvie
Jessica Ogilvie is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Buzzfeed, L.A. Weekly and many more. She was a contributing editor at Playboy for six years, and is currently at work on a memoir.
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Lubbock’s Musical Lawyer
Since learning piano as a child, Ann Manning has a musical and more than a dozen records in her nameStuck in a snow whiteout just before Thanksgiving while driving through the mountains to Angel Fire, New Mexico, the last thing Ann Manning expected was to compose the beginning of a musical. But that, says the Lubbock-based labor and employment attorney, is exactly what happened. “Going through the mountains, up on the last hill, I could barely see anything,” she says. “All of a sudden, a song went [through my head]: clippity-clop-clop, follow that star. Clippity-clop, how awesome you …
Thanksgiving in Pajamas with a Lot of Love
How Annie Levitt Heller returned the mantle of a large, loud, loving celebrationThe first time Annie Levitt Heller went to her future in-law’s house for Thanksgiving, she was floored. Having grown up in a home where the holiday was a quiet affair, her soon-to-be mother- and father-in-law’s crowded kitchen, boisterous guests and effervescent vibe caught her off guard. “It was very loud and involved a lot of people, and I had never been in a situation where it was a casual Thanksgiving,” says Heller, an associate at Sally Morin Personal Injury Lawyers. “Everyone's …
Family Law Attorneys Weigh in on States Repealing No-Fault Divorce
They say it could lead to clogged courts and dangers to domestic violence victimsSome lawmakers are challenging no-fault divorce, hoping to reintroduce the fault-based system of yesteryear. (Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers introduced a bill in January; the Texas Republican Party had it on its 2022 platform, as well as its current one; and federal politicians such as Ohio Sen. JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and former HUD Secretary Ben Carson have spoken in favor of stricter divorce laws.) In response, we asked some top divorce lawyers …
Dancing Her Way to the Olympics
IP lawyer Elizabeth Stamoulis performed at the 2004 closing ceremony in AthensThe moment Elizabeth Stamoulis remembers most about performing at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens is the sound of the audience when she entered the arena. “You always hear it described as the roar of the crowd,” says the intellectual property attorney. “I couldn’t see anybody because it was dark, but you could hear how many people were there. I’d never been in front of that many people before, and my breath got taken away.” Stamoulis, who lives in Florida …
Helping LGBTQ+ Immigrants Into America
Navid Dayzad works with clients towards a “win-win”Navid Dayzad was about 5 years old when he overheard his mother and grandmother, with whom he’d recently immigrated to the U.S. from Iran, talking in the kitchen. It was during the Carter administration, when the American government openly discussed the idea of deporting all Iranians as retaliation for the hostage crisis. “I remember very vividly my mom pondering out loud with my grandmother, on a very practical level, which of our neighbors would we leave our belongings with if they come …
Albro Lundy III’s Decades-Long Search for His POW-MIA Father
The civil litigator’s fight to bring his fighter pilot dad home from VietnamThis Memorial Day weekend, the United States of America will honor its fallen soldiers. For Hermosa beach-based attorney Albro Lundy III, the holiday is deeply personal; during a mission in the Vietnam War, his father, Albro Lundy, Jr. went missing. At first, his family believed that Albro, Jr. was dead. But that changed 20 years later, and Albro III’s journey to find out the truth about what happened to his father began. “The only moral thing I could do, the only spiritual …
The Boston Marathon: Philanthropy, a Dare, and a Fellini Movie
Stories of four Massachusetts attorneys who’ve been through itThis week, more than 30,000 runners took to the streets in and around Beantown for the 128th annual Boston Marathon. The course takes runners from the town of Hopkinton straight into downtown Boston. To get a feel for what it’s like to participate, we spoke to four attorneys with very different experiences taking part in the event. Pamela Gilman, Barton Gilman Year(s) Ran: 2007 and 2014 Pamela Gilman was never a long-distance runner, but she’d always wanted to run the Boston Marathon in …
A Masters Mindset
Alison Zeitlin has brought her determination and skills to cross-country horse racing, the Masters, and moreAlison Zeitlin is a self-described adrenaline junkie. Almost as soon as she first climbed onto a horse as a young child, the Kentucky-based attorney fell in love with eventing, an equine sport that challenges riders to compete in cross-country, dressage, and show jumping over the course of one or two days. “It’s about bravery,” she says of the sport, particularly the cross-country portion. “Being able to think on your feet, scrappiness, grit and courage.” It’s a mindset that has …
Ushering AI Into the Legal Field
John Weaver went from real estate law to a national voice on the future of artificial intelligenceJohn Weaver was reading The New York Times just over a decade ago when he stumbled on an article about self-driving cars, suggesting that the technology would be widely available by 2020. He was struck by the possibility of so much change so quickly. “There was this whole undiscovered country of legal work associated with this technology that doesn’t exist right now,” he recalls thinking. Weaver, a longtime attorney with McLane Middleton in the north Boston area, took it upon himself to …
Weekday Injury Lawyer, Weekend NFL Official
Attorney Jeff Rice spent 25 years officiating NFL games, including four Super BowlsBy the time Jeff Rice officiated Super Bowl XXXVI, he’d been working with the National Football League for seven years. But that game was one for the books. The St. Louis Rams were playing the New England Patriots in the first Super Bowl after 9/11, and Caesars Superdome in New Orleans was protected by snipers on rooftops, police officers and military personnel. Before the game, the Rams put the names of those who lost their lives in the Twin Towers up on the big board, and Rice happened to …
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