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
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 …
The Climate Change Challenge
While designing a 400-unit residential development on the booming Boston waterfront, the architects and civil engineer came up with a unique way to protect it from rising water levels caused by increasingly severe coastal storms. “A portion of the building, the part that sits lowest to the ground and closest to the water, is designed to be floodable without affecting the occupancy of the units in the rest of the building,” says Matthew Kiefer, a land use attorney at Goulston & Storrs …
The Next Generations
Jay and Leah Edelstein carry on the tradition of Nathan and EdwardTo young Leah Edelstein, her grandfather Edward was simply a “goofy, lovable guy” who collected Mickey Mouse curios and was delighted when she wore her Minnie Mouse dress during visits. “It was not until his funeral, when I was about 15 years old, that I turned around and saw that there was a line of people literally wrapped around the block to pay tribute to him,” Leah says. “It was in that moment that it hit me: ‘Wow, this is a really big deal.’” The Edelsteins still are. Now …
Veteran Lawyer
The many stories of former JAG officer Joel Collins would fill a book—and they doLike many young men during the Vietnam War era, Joel Collins needed a plan. “What I wanted to do was go into the JAG Corps, because if I went to Vietnam, that would probably have been the end of me,” says Collins, 79, founding partner of Collins & Lacy in Columbia. “That would’ve put me in the front lines of combat.” He grew up in Chester, enrolled in ROTC in high school, skipped his senior year thanks to stellar SAT scores, then earned a U.S. Army infantry commission upon …
Justice for the Most Despised Among Us
Greg Kuykendall fights for his death row clients—and winsGreg Kuykendall still remembers the screaming and the blood. While studying abroad at the Universidad de Cádiz in Spain, Kuykendall went to a bullfight. Afterward, he found himself in the room where the dead animal was being quartered and weighed according to local custom. “There was blood all over the floor, and there were all these reporters shouting out at the people cutting up the bull,” he recalls. “I just thought, ‘Jesus Christ, everything’s in technicolor all of a …
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