About Lauren Peck
Lauren Peck is a former editorial assistant and associate editor at Super Lawyers. She currently works at a public relations agency in Minneapolis and frequently writes articles for clients on topics from employee burnout to the opioid epidemic. Her work has been published in Minnesota Parent, Twin Cities Metro Magazine, Minnesota Good Age and more. As a staffer and freelancer for Super Lawyers, Lauren has written stories about attorneys taking on cases against Donald Rumsfeld, Colombian narcotics dealers, Skechers and more.
Articles written by Lauren Peck
Bad Medicine
What to do when a medical procedure goes wrongIn 2016, a Johns Hopkins study stated that more than 250,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors. These include everything from misdiagnoses and medication errors to surgical mistakes. “Basically, it’s an epidemic of medical malpractice in the United States,” says Hollynd Hoskins, a Denver attorney who has represented patients and their families for nearly 20 years. “There’s sometimes a lack of staff, inadequate staffing in hospitals, inadequate resources. But really, …
What To Do When a Medical Procedure Goes Wrong
In 2016, a Johns Hopkins study stated that more than 250,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors. These include everything from misdiagnoses and medication errors to surgical mistakes and anesthesia errors. “Basically, it’s an epidemic of medical malpractice in the United States,” says Hollynd Hoskins, a Denver attorney who has represented patients and their families for nearly 20 years. “There’s sometimes a lack of staff, inadequate staffing in hospitals, inadequate …
Non-Profit Driven
A few taxing questions on starting a nonprofitWhen clients wishing to start a nonprofit come to Jack Sawyer’s office at Taylor English Duma in Atlanta, he first talks nomenclature. “There is some confusion in the public mind about the term nonprofit,” he says. “It’s really a state law concept.” Under Georgia law, a nonprofit is an organization set up for a purpose other than enriching shareholders. But most nonprofits are not automatically tax-exempt. That’s a federal designation—such as a 501(c)(3)—and involves a …
Nonprofit-Driven
What does it take to start a tax-exempt org?When clients enter his office wanting to start a nonprofit, attorney Cliff Perlman has them take a step back. “A lot of times people come to me … and they’re better off not starting a nonprofit; they’re better off doing it as a for-profit company,” says Perlman, who advises philanthropic organizations at Perlman & Perlman in Midtown. “Maybe it doesn’t make any profit, but it’s not regulated the same way.” If, however, a nonprofit is the best fit for your …
New York Nonprofit Formation: Steps To Tax-Exempt Status
When clients enter his office wanting to start a nonprofit, attorney Cliff Perlman has them take a step back. “A lot of times people come to me... and they’re better off not starting a nonprofit; they’re better off doing it as a for-profit [business entity],” says Perlman, who advises philanthropic organizations at Perlman & Perlman in Midtown. “Maybe it doesn’t make any profit, but it’s not regulated the same way.” New York Nonprofit Formation and Tax Exemption …
Patent Portent
Giovanna Fessenden’s family history of inventing presaged her career in IP lawIn the late 1990s, Giovanna Fessenden was working in Geneva, Switzerland, using her bachelor’s degree in computer science to do web-based programming. As she saw the World Wide Web exploding in popularity, Fessenden knew what her next step would be. “I decided I wanted to take my love for technology to the next level, and help protect technology in the space of the internet,” she says. During her 18-year career in intellectual property law at Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds in …
The Best Way To Start a Nonprofit
Nonprofit organizations provide a wide variety of important social services. But starting a nonprofit can be quite complicated, especially if you're unfamiliar with tax and corporation laws. In particular, nonprofit businesses need to understand how different state and federal laws affect their structure. States and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) highly regulate different types of nonprofit organizations. Failure to follow nonprofit compliance could result in severe tax penalties. Before …
This Land Was Claimed for You and Me
Mary Hazlewood Barkley takes on eminent domain cases for landowners and public authoritiesMary Hazlewood Barkley was brainstorming how to make a jury understand the severity of the headache her client was facing. A portion of Stockton Bend 100 Joint Venture’s Granbury lakefront property—where the client was planning a 100-home subdivision—had been condemned by the state to make way for a new raised highway. The state had replaced a 48-inch wide pipe culvert beneath the old county road with five box culverts, each about 10 feet wide, Barkley says. The larger culverts, she says, …
‘DUI Don’
Donald Ramsell is the authority on Illinois’ drinking and driving lawsIt started with $75 and a phone number. In 1986, Donald Ramsell was two years out of DePaul University School of Law, the “low man” at a workers’ compensation and personal injury firm—and he’d just received his first taste of DUI work, winning cases for two of his buddies. “I knew right away this is what I’ve always wanted to do,” Ramsell says. “Now it was just driving me crazy; I wanted to be a criminal defense attorney.” A clever ad might net him clients, and a custom …
The GC and the GOP
John L. Ryder throws himself into bankruptcy work, election law and his role as general counsel to the Republican National CommitteeQ: How did you first become interested in law? A: Probably as a child watching Perry Mason. It just looked like a lot of fun. Q: What area of law did you think you wanted to get into? A: I’ve always liked to go to court. I think that is great fun. My practice has focused on commercial litigation and bankruptcy. Bankruptcy, I think, involves all of the different skills that one has to have as a lawyer. It involves the drafting of documents, negotiating and litigating. Q: How did …
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