About Marc Ramirez
Marc Ramirez is a veteran journalist currently based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of California-Berkeley, he has worked for The Seattle Times, Phoenix New Times, The Dallas Morning News, USA TODAY and The Wall Street Journal. In his spare time, he is an avid food and drink enthusiast. Marc is also a dedicated fan of the Seattle Seahawks.
Articles written by Marc Ramirez
Hopeless Romantic
Natalie Gregg is a lover of fairytale endings ‘trapped in a divorce lawyer’s body’Natalie Gregg likes tidy endings. Sure, divorce is a messy process, but her goal is a harmonious settlement that encourages positive co-parenting. Still, part of the Allen family law attorney’s job is to give her clients a reality check. “I tell people that divorce is a death,” she says. “It’s the death of a portion of your life. That’s when they stop and cry. But I want them to acknowledge that it’s not just tonsillitis. I have to change my Kleenex box every day.” Gregg’s …
At Your Service
Lessons learned as an Air Force captain have inspired Jeff Whitfield’s litigation practice—and his commitment to helping veteransOn a chilly Saturday morning in 2012, litigator Jeff Whitfield leaned over a table, armed with a pair of scissors, as he and several other lawyers cut letters out of heavy-duty, glitter-covered paper. Their mission? Assemble a float for Fort Worth’s annual Parade of Lights holiday procession. “It was Jeff, me, Aleed [Rivera] and a couple of others,” recalls business lawyer Marvin Champlin. “It was like kindergartners. … In all my years of being a lawyer, I’d never sat down on a …
Wayne Hogan: Driven to Action
The Jacksonville attorney works to keep teens focused on the roadWayne Hogan, a personal injury lawyer with Terrell Hogan in Jacksonville, is well aware of one major cause of crashes: driver distraction. So when he heard last year about a national effort to recruit lawyers to warn teens about the dangers of inattentive driving, he signed up. End Distracted Driving’s Student Awareness Initiative, sponsored by the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation, came about after a 21-year-old college student died after being hit by a distracted driver in 2009. Hogan, 65, …
Success Stories
Bankruptcy attorney John Kozyak pairs minority students with law-industry mentorsJohn Kozyak grew up on the Illinois side of industrial St. Louis during the turbulence of the civil rights movement. Though landmark laws were being passed, it took much more to change hearts and minds. “An African-American person couldn’t think of moving into my hometown without fear of, at minimum, a lot of racial slurs and non-acceptance,” remembers Kozyak, a founding partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, a Miami bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation firm. “I just never …
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