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
Out to Right the Wrongs
E. Drew Britcher is the antithesis of flashy and flamboyantIt was the summer of 1987 when E. Drew Britcher unexpectedly found himself preparing for his first court case. He was just 28 years old, three years out of New York Law School, and terrified. “I was entrusted with a trial I had no right to ever be doing at that point in my life,” recalls Britcher, co-founder of the medical malpractice and personal injury firm Britcher, Leone & Roth in Glen Rock. “The only trial experiences I had up until then were mock trial competitions in law …
the Walt Disney Approach
How PI heavyweight Kathleen Nastri learned to simplify her trial argumentsMonths before she made history by winning the largest medical malpractice verdict ever awarded in the state of Connecticut, Kathleen Nastri had to figure out what went wrong the first time around. It was the winter of 2011, and for more than seven years Nastri had been representing the family of Daniel D’Attilo, a child born on February 2, 2003 with severe cerebral palsy. Working alongside law partner James Horowitz, it was Nastri’s job to convince the jury that Stamford physician Richard …
Living It Completely
Trial lawyer Slade H. McLaughlin does nothing at half speedWhen 18-year-old Amy Fledderman walked into Dr. Richard Glunk’s operating room on May 23, 2001, she and her mother had little reason to be concerned. The liposuction procedure would be fairly straightforward, and in all likelihood, the Penn State freshman would be recovering at home within a few hours. Then something went wrong. During the procedure, Glunk accidentally severed a blood vessel in Fledderman’s neck, resulting in a fat embolism that entered her bloodstream. An embolism of this …
Just the Facts, Ma’am
Eric Kahn and Rubin Sinins ‘make it right for Molly’ in the Tyler Clementi caseOn Sept. 19, 2010, Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi had a male visitor in his dorm room and asked his roommate, Dharun Ravi, if he could have the room to himself. Obliging, Ravi wandered across the hall to visit his friend Molly Wei. He told her about the visitor. Curious about what was taking place, Ravi used Wei’s MacBook Pro and a remotely operated webcam to spy on the proceedings. When the two turned on the camera, they saw Clementi and his visitor kissing. They watched the …
The Intercessor
Bud DeLuca on psychology, storytelling and helping clients be proactiveAmato “Bud” DeLuca was going to be a priest. Growing up as the second youngest of seven children born to a poor couple in Rhode Island, DeLuca recalls Roman Catholic missionaries making regular visits to his home, where they’d discuss the benefits of salvation and the glories of the church. To the young DeLuca, this seemed like the perfect way to free himself from poverty. “My mom really liked that, thinking I was going to become a priest,” says DeLuca. “I was just a boy at the …
The Lawyer Who Levels the Playing Field
Teresa Woody advocates for small towns against corporations in toxic disastersTeresa Woody had heard the stories coming out of Hartford, Ill., in late 2004. She heard about the spontaneous fires. The factory explosions. The noxious vapors that seeped from the ground after each new rainfall and the overall sense of environmental dread permeating the sleepy town of 1,500. But it wasn’t until the Kansas City, Mo., litigator saw the devastation firsthand that she understood how dire the situation had become. “The sheer amount of contamination and the length of time it …
Calm in the Courtroom
Trial lawyer Bill Hangley wins cases with conversation and charmSeven years ago, Bill Hangley experienced one of the most incredible moments in his five-decade career as one of Pennsylvania’s most celebrated trial lawyers. That moment saved the life of a mentally disabled man. In 1987, a jury convicted Karl Chambers for fatally beating an elderly woman named Anna Mae Morris with a large stick in order to steal her Social Security check. Chambers was sentenced to death, lost his appeal, and awaited his execution for nearly two decades. Then Hangley got …
True Devotion
Real estate lawyer Lloyd Tubman helps religious groups—and other clients—break down barriersWhen Lloyd Tubman was asked to file a planning board application on behalf of a local religious group in late 2010, the seasoned real estate lawyer assumed the process would be routine. With more than 25 years of land use law under her belt, there was little reason for Tubman to think this application would present any unseen challenges … with one exception. Many of the neighbors were less than thrilled about welcoming the Islamic religious group. “A year later, this has become very …
The Man Behind the Largest Pro Bono Effort in History
Leo Boyle knew everything would change after 9/11. He vowed to make some of that change positiveOn the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Leo Boyle was driving to work. Less than halfway to his Boston-based firm, however, the trial lawyer got a phone call. The law offices, he was told, had closed. The entire building, in fact, was being shut down. Planes had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. And maybe the Pentagon. Details were fuzzy. Boyle was told that he should go back home, turn on the news, and wait to see what would happen next. Boyle didn’t go home. Instead he made a …
Protector of The Catcher in the Rye
Marcia Paul doesn’t relish being center of attention, but her clients, including J.D. Salinger, Mel Brooks and Dustin Hoffman, often put her thereMarcia Paul thought it one of the cleverer ad campaigns she’d seen in recent years. In autumn 1997, on the sides of city buses, New York Magazine ran an ad with its logo and the caption: “Possibly the only good thing in New York Rudy hasn’t taken credit for.” Not everyone laughed. “Rudy [Giuliani] wasn’t pleased with the signs,” Paul says. “So he ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to take them off the buses. And that’s when the magazine asked me to file an …
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