About Nancy Henderson
Nancy Henderson is an award-winning journalist who has published hundreds of articles in Smithsonian, The New York Times, Parade, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. The author of Sewing Hope and Able! How One Company’s Extraordinary Workforce Changed the Way We Look at Disability Today, she enjoys breaking stereotypes and often writes about people who are making a difference through their work. Over the years, she’s enjoyed listening to family stories about her grandfather, who prosecuted cases as a solicitor general in North Carolina long before she was born.
Articles written by Nancy Henderson
From Cloning to Counseling Clients
Becky Harasimowicz brings a scientific eye to her intellectual property practiceBy the time Becky Harasimowicz set out to earn a J.D. and a master’s degree in bioethics from Wake Forest University—simultaneously—she’d already proven her ability to juggle simultaneous challenges. At Mount Holyoke College, she’d aced a triple major in politics, biomedical ethics and international relations while playing varsity volleyball. And when an opportunity arose for her to study abroad, she chose South Korea, she says, not just because it was the “epicenter of modern …
The Follow Through
Why Sara Johnson helps those who’ve been failed by the systemDuring a discussion of a violent, gang-related case with prosecutors, rookie criminal defense attorney Sara Johnson pored over the gruesome crime scene photos. “They really demonstrated how destructive high-powered rifles and certain kinds of ammunition can be to the human body,” she says. But she never missed a beat in the conversation. “I sort of heard through the grapevine afterward that they were like, ‘Sara didn’t even blink. She wasn’t fazed,’” she recalls. Those steely …
Up Is Down
Sampada “Sam” Kapoor’s path to Mississippi went through JapanWhen she was 12 and already fluent in English, Hindi and Japanese, Sampada “Sam” Kapoor arrived with her family in Jackson, Mississippi, where she struggled with one language barrier: Southern slang. One day, for example, the teacher instructed the class to “put your books up.” Kapoor recalls: “I remember seeing everyone in class putting their books down beneath their cubbies, underneath their chairs. So I was like, ‘Oh, up means down here. Got it.’” Kapoor laughs. “I feel …
The Med Mal Changemaker
Jim Bartimus relies on his memory, work ethic and med school trainingIn the early 1980s, a pregnant Kansas woman had been left lying on a gurney by health care workers in a Missouri hospital when her uterus ruptured, causing the death of her unborn child. Back then, in accordance with a unanimous “breath of life” Missouri Supreme Court decision, the woman had no legal recourse because the child hadn’t been born alive. Despite the clamor of activists on both sides, Jim Bartimus—then a young attorney representing the woman—insists the case was more about …
How Workers' Comp Protects Employees and Employers
Learning how to comply with workers' compensation laws may seem burdensome as a business owner. However, like many business tasks, it's both critical and beneficial to you and your workers. Workers' compensation benefits provide for injured workers. Workers' comp insurance also limits how much workers can recover from their employer. Workers' comp laws vary by state. For legal advice about your state laws, talk to a local workers' compensation lawyer. What Is Workers' Compensation Coverage? …
Strategies for Businesses To Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware is a malicious software, also called malware, designed to disable computer systems and capture sensitive data until the victim pays a ransom to recover access. Ransomware attacks are on the rise, and the tools deployed by threat actors — people or groups who intentionally cause harm to digital devices or systems — are increasingly sophisticated. “Assume you're going to get hit at some point,” says Jason Kravitz, head of the cybersecurity and privacy practice at Nixon Peabody …
Matter of Life & Death
How Mark Henricksen got into the murder business “kind of by accident”Oklahoma City trial attorney Mark Henricksen was making a phone call from his bedroom on a Thursday night in 2004 when he heard gunshots. Before he could investigate, the door to his room swung open and he was shot three times: once in his stomach and in each of his legs. For the next 13 hours, the invaders held him hostage, along with a friend at his home, whom they had also shot and then hog-tied. At one point, Henricksen handed over the few hundred dollars in his wallet and two of the …
Legal Options To Fight Wage Theft
Wage theft — the unfair practice of withholding pay from employees, often by not paying minimum wage or overtime — affects millions of workers to the tune of billions of dollars in the U.S. each year, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In New York, it’s so widespread that in 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a crackdown that includes a hotline for victims to report violations. In 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. launched a new department to pursue criminal …
Can I Sue My Landlord?
Mitchell Zingman recalls the distraught client who, after cultivating an enclosed garden for 30 years at her Manhattan apartment — with full permission from the owners — found the entire thing bulldozed to the ground one day by the daughter who’d inherited the place and had her own plans for the land. “I sued the landlord, arguing that after all those years, that garden was part of her lease,” says Zingman, a real estate litigator and founder of Zingman & Associates. …
Wide Open Spaces
Four attorneys on why they love their rural practicesWhen Brian Elkins visits his hometown of Priest Lake, Idaho, he prefers to forgo the winding, 10-hour drive north from his practice in Ketchum and instead fly a small plane over the rugged mountains and deep canyons of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area, so named for the days when boats were unable to navigate the fast-moving current upstream. Each summer, the criminal defense attorney can be found paddling the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, and in winter, he often skis Bald …
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