About Nick DiUlio
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
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 …
Changing the Balance
How Mala Rafik tips the scales toward plaintiffs in employee benefits litigationIn July 2004, Dr. Julie Colby, an experienced anesthesiologist, was found sleeping on a nursing table in the hallway of the Massachusetts hospital where she worked. The incident was suspicious enough for the head of Dr. Colby’s anesthesia group to request a urine screen, which turned up positive for fentanyl. Unbeknownst to her coworkers, Colby had been struggling with an addiction to the powerful opioid as a result of extreme back pain. Colby relinquished her medical license and entered an …
An Everyday Guy from Dorchester
Neil Sugarman looks back on more than 50 years in the lawOn a late fall afternoon in 2005, as a South Shore stone quarry was being prepped for seasonal shutdown, one of the large machines used to crush stone malfunctioned and began screaming like it was coming apart at the seams. One of the quarrymen working that afternoon had to make a split-second decision: Should he let the machine fly apart and potentially injure his crew, or risk his own life by climbing onto it to shut it off? He chose the latter, and the personal consequences were devastating. …
‘I Can Do That’
Elizabeth Ainslie has never met a case she didn’t want to tryThe pattern couldn’t be a coincidence. An employee of the United States Postal Inspection Service in Pennsylvania had begun noticing numerous auto insurance claims with the same names and vehicle ID numbers appearing again and again between 1976 and 1977. Since they were being filed with a handful of different insurers—and each claim was relatively modest—no one had picked up on the repetition. Eventually the inspector collected enough evidence, and on Jan. 22, 1981, the U.S. Attorney’s …
Keep Calm and Litigate On
Lisa Arrowood wins cases with tranquil intensitWhen John and Karen Tedeman enrolled their autistic teenage son, Scott, in the Boston Higashi School, they believed they were placing him in safe, capable hands. Touting itself as one of the state’s leading institutions for autistic and behaviorally challenged students, Boston Higashi promised never to use physical discipline, restraints or other harsh techniques. And for a while it appeared Higashi was living up to its promise—until one afternoon in 2000. After picking Scott up for a long …
The Securities King of Pennsylvania
When millions of dollars are on the line, companies turn to Marc J. SonnenfeldIt was mid-2010 and a California-based tech company’s board of directors had just forced its CEO to step down. The move came in light of revelations that the man had been concealing a relationship with a subordinate for several months. But it wasn’t the ouster that upset some of the company’s shareholders—it was the $40 million severance package he took with him. Shortly after his departure, a shareholder sued the tech company, claiming the CEO’s severance was extravagant and damaging …
Williams v. the Rubber Stamp
Family law litigator Allison C. Williams doesn’t sit in the sandbox and sing ‘Kumbaya’Allison C. Williams had only been practicing family law for two years when she came to the swift and startling realization that she would be fighting an uphill battle for the rest of her life. As the youngest associate at the small family law firm Lomurro, Davison, Eastman & Muñoz, Williams was often handed walk-in cases. So when “A.F.” came into the firm’s Freehold office one afternoon in 2005, the newbie was tapped. “As soon as I met her I could tell this woman was just …
The Courtroom as Classroom
From tobacco to 9/11 to class actions, trial lawyer Donald Migliori creates change by ‘challenging truth’Mildred Wiley never smoked a day in her life, but when she died of lung cancer on June 24, 1991, it appeared clear that cigarettes were to blame. For 17 years, Wiley had worked as a veteran’s hospital nurse in Indiana, and one of her primary responsibilities was to light cigarettes and hold them to the mouths of patients who were unable to do so themselves. When she succumbed to cancer at age 56, her husband, Philip, needed to hold someone accountable. He filed a wrongful death lawsuit …
Complementary Counsel
Mary Kohart likes trying cases, and her husband, Dean Phillips, likes settling themIt was May 11, 1999, and the Philadelphia courtroom was unusually crowded. But Mary Kohart wasn’t nervous. Well, no more than usual. “I’m always terrified before I get into the courtroom,” says Kohart, a litigator at Elliott Greenleaf in Blue Bell. “But once I start, I’m absolutely fearless. I don’t know why, but I’m always just convinced I’m right and that it’s going to work out in the end.” On that particular morning, Kohart’s clients were National Rifle Association …
Communicating in Ways No One Else Can
After helping his daughter gain access to education, Howard M. Klebanoff vowed to do the same for other Connecticut childrenSometimes legal success comes by way of aggressive litigation. Sometimes it comes from deft negotiation. And in the case of Howard M. Klebanoff—one of the country’s most respected advocates for children with special education needs—success is often achieved by understanding the mind of a child. Consider a case he handled about 15 to 20 years ago. One afternoon, Klebanoff met with parents who said their 5-year-old daughter was being treated unfairly by her suburban Connecticut school …
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