About Nick DiUlio

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Nick DiUlio is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at Rowan University, where he focuses on teaching students how to craft innovative digital-first nonfiction storytelling and long-form narrative journalism, how to leverage social media as a journalistic tool, and how to apply a wide range of ethical concepts to the craft of journalism. He is also the former editor of South Jersey Magazine and has more than 15 years of experience with work that has appeared in publications such as Philadelphia Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, and Slate.com.

Articles written by Nick DiUlio

The Player’s Agent

How David Pepe combined a passion for law with a zest for sports

Growing up in Upper Saddle River, David Pepe was fascinated with U.S. presidential history, reading scores of biographies and having the dawning recognition that many of the men he admired were lawyers. At the same time, Pepe’s father, Phil, was the longtime Yankees beat writer for the New York Daily News, providing an inside glimpse at professional athletics not afforded to most children. So a question began percolating in the boy’s mind: How would he merge these two passions? “First I …

A Hard Way to Make an Easy Living

Chris Fitzgerald’s year as a pro poker player

Chris Fitzgerald has always thrived on competition. When he was 10, his grandmother taught him how to play blackjack for pennies. In high school, he was a competitive golfer, and in college he jumped into the booming online poker scene. “After a year, I was able to use it for some supplemental income,” Fitzgerald says, recalling that he’d play for a few hours four or five nights a week. “It wasn’t a significant amount of money, but enough to make life enjoyable in college. … When I …

Unshakeable

Sheryl Axelrod is at her best when the stakes—and emotions—run high

If commercial litigation has a rep for being dry and dispassionate, Sheryl Axelrod begs to differ. In fact, she can’t recall a single case where emotions didn’t run high, and it’s often her job to make sure human passions play as small a role as possible. Consider, for instance, a commercial litigation matter she handled many years ago. The case concerned a father and two sons who sold a house they’d purchased as an investment property a few years prior. Shortly after closing, the buyer …

Seven Decades of Lawyering with Paul Sugarman

One of the nation’s longest-tenured lawyers looks back

At 91, Paul Sugarman has logged more years of legal experience than almost any other lawyer on the East Coast. Few attorneys have had a better vantage point of the profession’s evolution over the past seven decades. “If a lawyer today were to go back to when I started practicing law almost 70 years ago, they would think they were on the other side of the moon,” says Sugarman, who enrolled in Boston University’s School of Law in 1951 at the age of 19 and went on to found the Boston-based …

Inherent Optimism

Why Susan Lin is in criminal defense for the long haul

It was early in her tenure as a federal public defense attorney when Susan Lin realized she was developing a refined understanding of what victory looks like. Lin’s client was facing prison time after she’d sent a letter to a judge threatening to “cook the judge up like rice.” The woman had been in and out of the criminal justice system for years. This threat was the final straw. The question wasn’t whether she’d broken the law, but rather, what constituted a just response. …

‘Be a Human Being’

Don Caminiti’s recipe for courtroom success: humility, honesty, empathy

In the fall of 1989, Jody Stroker was driving down a small suburban side street with piles of recently plowed leaves lining both sides of the road, when an oncoming vehicle swerved and struck her left fender. She was slightly injured, but the tragedy is what happened to her young children, Jake and Ali, wearing lap seat belts in the back. Both of them were severely injured upon impact. As a result, Jake suffers from lifelong hemiparesis, causing the right side of his body to function …

Pathfinder

Whether he’s on Machu Picchu or repping entertainment law clients, Fred Fierst always finds the way forward

It was the early 1980s and Fred Fierst was working as a solo practitioner in Northampton when he got a call from a prominent lawyer in New York City asking for his help. He told Fierst that the daughter of a famed film director was being charged with the death of a pedestrian she’d allegedly hit while driving down Main Street as she headed back to Smith College, where she was a student. “She was a lovely person and clearly not guilty of anything,” says Fierst, founding partner at Fierst …

All Eyes On Her

Rosemary Scapicchio wins long-haul cases for Sean Ellis and others

In the fall of 2004, Rosemary Scapicchio took on the case of Sean Ellis, who’d spent more than a decade behind bars after being convicted of murdering Boston police detective John Mulligan in 1993. The verdict came after two mistrials. Scapicchio’s mission: get Ellis back in court for a fourth, final, and fair trial. “How do you get a judge’s attention when it comes to a cop killing? You don’t see this in the textbooks, but you know as an attorney this is a big problem for you as the …

The Whole Picture

Tax lawyer Ameek Ponda combines the macro and the micro

In the mid-1990s, Ameek Ponda realized his clients were asking a lot of questions for which there were no satisfactory answers. So he asked himself: Why The specific issue at hand was why foreign pension funds were not sufficiently investing in real estate investment trusts in the U.S. It seemed like a logical move. These offshore pensions had a lot of money that needed to be put into passive investments, and REITs—which act like mutual funds for various types of large-scale real …

Steady Under Pressure

Russell Beck excels when business disputes come in “short, fast and hot”

Time is typically not on Russell Beck’s side.  As a litigator with nearly 30 years of experience representing corporate and individual clients in complex business matters, Beck is often tasked with putting a case together with blistering speed. Consider one from 2016. It was the week before Thanksgiving when the Boston-based Beck Reed Riden got a call from a large retail company that had just experienced a defection of more than 20 employees leaving to a competitor, potentially violating …

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