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 Do I Avoid a Software License Dispute?
Avoid a software license dispute with clear written amendments based on the service levels that define the scope and deployment limits, with a legal review by licensing counsel. Ensure your licensing agreement defines the license scope, seat count, permitted users, audit rights, usage tracking, and renewal terms. Your business can include true-up provisions, price escalation terms, open source review, assignment clauses, maintenance obligations, and termination rights. Contact an attorney about …
Vote of Confidence
Your rights as a voter and what to do if they’re violatedIn her early days as a volunteer poll watcher, Caitlyn Silhan witnessed a number of voters being turned away from their polling station. Even though they had updated their registration at the same time as their driver’s licenses, poll workers could find no record of it. Silhan, a civil litigation attorney at Waters Kraus & Paul in Dallas, went on to successfully sue the state of Texas for noncompliance with federal law in 2016 and 2020. “Now, if a Texan goes to update their driver’s …
The Labyrinthine Process and the Waiting Line
Attorneys dispel myths about the immigration processAs a Chinese-born U.S. citizen studying law in the 1970s, Gordon Quan admits he was a bit naïve when he assumed getting a green card for his new wife, a Hong Kong resident attending the University of Houston on a student visa, would be relatively easy. More than once, she waited for hours at the local immigration office to check the status of her application, only to be told, curtly, “Yeah, it’s pending. Next!” “It was very frustrating,” says Quan, an immigration attorney in Houston. …
Immigrating to the US: A Labyrinthine Process and Long Waits
As a Chinese-born U.S. citizen studying law in the 1970s, Gordon Quan admits he was a bit naïve when he assumed getting a green card for his new wife, a Hong Kong resident attending the University of Houston on a student visa, would be relatively easy. More than once, she waited for hours at the local immigration office to check her application status, only to be told, curtly, “Yeah, it’s pending. Next!” “It was very frustrating,” says Quan, an immigration attorney in Houston. …
From Cop Car to Courtroom
Tim Brooks traded a law enforcement career for a legal oneAn old maxim attributed to baseball player Yogi Berra states, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” For Hamburg criminal defense attorney Tim Brooks, life has been all about taking those forks. It started when Brooks’ dad, chief of detectives at the Lackawanna Police Department, encouraged his son to take the civil service exam. Brooks, then 21, was studying business administration and marketing at the University at Buffalo when the opportunity arose. “Consumer product …
The Long Haul
What employers can do when they’re committed to a foreign workerWhen attorney Ashley Cruz advises professionals from India who’ve been hired to work in the U.S., they are often taken aback when she tells them their residence process may take two years or more. “They say, ‘Well, I saw on TV that I can get my green card in six months,’” says Cruz, who practices immigration law at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in Boston. “While that might be true for some green card paths—every path is unique—for the ones that I work in, that’s …
First Amendment Defender
David Reymann protects his clients’ right to free speechLate at night, three weeks into a defamation trial, commercial litigator David Reymann argued a directed verdict motion in a nearly empty Provo courtroom. Such after-hours proceedings were standard, and his law partners were already back at the hotel across the street, preparing witnesses for the next day.The outcome, too, seemed inevitable. “Dave, just handle this,” his colleagues at Salt Lake City’s Parr Brown Gee & Loveless had urged. “The judge isn’t going to grant it, so when …
Their Own Way
Four attorneys on what it’s like to start, and manage, a solo practiceFor some attorneys, the prospect of sacrificing a steady paycheck at an established firm and going it alone sounds like a recipe for loneliness and financial ruin. But, as these four lawyers point out, it doesn’t have to be that way. “I am in solo practice, but it’s not a solitary thing,” says Alanna Coopersmith, a criminal defense attorney in Oakland. “I’m really grateful for the community of lawyers that I have—whether it’s covering a case, discussing a case or mentoring. …
The Long Haul: Hiring International Employees
When attorney Ashley Cruz advises professionals from India who’ve been hired to work in the U.S., they are often taken aback when she tells them their residence process may take two years or more. “They say, ‘Well, I saw on TV that I can get my green card in six months,’” says Cruz, who practices immigration law at WR Immigration in Santa Monica, California. “While that might be true for some green card paths — every path is unique — for the ones that I work in, that’s not the …
Holding Enablers Accountable
Brenda Harkavy pursues institutional justice for victims of abuseBrenda Harkavy was still in high school when she saw the news reports about young female factory workers murdered in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Authorities had failed to protect them, or even investigate the crimes. “It just somehow hit a chord with me,” says Brenda Harkavy, a civil litigator at Raynes & Lawn in Philadelphia. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, she raised funds to help protect the victims from further violence during the summer of her junior year, and lived in …
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