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
Lee Stapleton’s Paradise Found
The litigator—and former ‘military brat’—discovered her perfect home in MiamiAs a third-year law student in the early 1980s, Lee Stapleton had an on-campus interview with a lawyer from a prominent Atlanta firm. He urged her to rethink her plan to pursue job opportunities in Miami. “He said, ‘You have a choice between civilization or the Wild Wild West,’” she recalls. Stapleton remembers the news stories at the time: In a 1980 FBI report, the city topped the list of most crime-ridden U.S. cities. A few years earlier, Miami drug kingpin Jimenez Panesso and his …
Meeting a Growing Need
Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership members work together to alleviate legal need in their hometownLast year, Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood Legal Services Association (NLSA) was forced to lay off its two attorneys who handled expungement cases. Considering that more than one out of every four Pittsburgh residents lives beneath the poverty line—that’s roughly enough people to fill every seat in Heinz Field—the funding cuts were especially painful. “We have a growing need and shrinking resources,” says Barbara Griffin, pro bono coordinator at the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. Since …
Legal Aide
For more than 40 years, David A. Webster has worked to empower those in needIn 1970, fresh off an Alabama appeals clerkship and fueled by a desire to make a difference, David A. Webster began considering a career with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. But he first shook up the Atlanta legal scene by representing an unlikely client: himself. “Georgia required that you be a resident of Georgia for a year before you could get signed up for the bar. So [Legal Aid and I] put our heads together, and we decided that was open to constitutional challenge,” he says. “My first …
A Voice Against Domestic Violence
Ashley Huffstetler Campbell strives to protect victims of abuseIn 2009, Ashley Huffstetler Campbell met a pro bono client who was a highly educated professional at a profitable, well-known corporation. She was accompanied by her two young children. The client was unlike her previous Legal Aid clients, but domestic violence doesn’t discriminate. “Battered women’s syndrome is a real thing, and she was the most afflicted of anyone I ever saw,” Campbell says. In the latest event, the father of the client’s children had attacked her and strangled …
Taking on Donald Rumsfeld
Michael Kanovitz accuses the former secretary of defense of condoning the torture of his clientsDonald Vance thought he was doing the right thing. A U.S. citizen working in Iraq, Vance and a fellow contractor say they alerted U.S. officials to suspected illegal activity by their employer, an Iraqi security company, including alleged payments to Iraqi sheiks and involvement in illegal arms-trading. Far from being praised, the two whistleblowers found themselves held incommunicado in 2006 at a U.S. military prison in Iraq, where they say they were tortured as though they were enemy …
After the Storms
Law student Jennifer Cunha provides relief to legal services organizations post-disasterAfter her first semester at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Jennifer Cunha felt disillusioned by her classes, which focused on contracts and torts. “I was always into the social justice thing, and I couldn’t find any relevance for what I wanted to do,” she says. A trip to New Orleans changed all that. Cunha joined Legal Assistance for Disaster Relief (then the Student Hurricane Network) in 2009, a group of UW student volunteers who travel to areas affected by natural disasters …
Frozen In Tme
Amy Lorenz-Moser works to free battered women from prisonCarlene Borden and Vicky Williams had each spent more than 30 years in Missouri prison without an end in sight. Both women were serving life sentences without parole for 50 years for murdering their husbands, but their 1970s trials hadn’t admitted crucial evidence: Both were longtime victims of domestic violence. Then Amy Lorenz-Moser and the Missouri Battered Women’s Clemency Coalition got involved. “It seemed like the law had changed; society had changed, [but] these sentences just …
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