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
The Raconteur
When Shanin Specter speaks, med mal juries listenSomething remarkable happens whenever Shanin Specter tells a story about a client or a case. His voice becomes hushed, almost reverent. He starts off slowly, making sure the smallest details are clear. And then he’ll build the emotional tension, digging deeper into his memory, closing his eyes and tilting his head upward ever so slightly, as though summoning a muse. Specter does this several times during a conversation inside his high-rise Philadelphia office, its enormous windows displaying …
Tenacious Defender
Carl Poplar is still tougher than anyone elseIt was a late August night in 1971, and Carl Poplar was meeting with a handful of fellow lawyers and colleagues inside his Camden office. Their discussion, focused and hopeful, was about the possibility of Poplar’s good friend, Jim Florio, running for Congress. Outside, however, something disquieting was brewing in the streets. Poplar, 27 at the time, had started his own law practice just two years earlier, after a six-month stint at Camden Regional Legal Services. He was already well known …
The Advocate
Lynette Labinger has made a career out of fighting for social changeSometimes the future comes down to one event; a moment so significant to a person’s life that everything else is eventually defined against its backdrop. For Lynette Labinger, that moment came during a month-long trip to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1970. It was then, at the age of 20, that Labinger discovered what she wanted to do with her life. “That trip was the game changer for me,” says Labinger, 61, from her law office in Providence. “That’s where things became clear.” …
We Can Hear Him Now
Verizon’s Randy Milch wins approval from the FCC to open up America’s long-distance telephone linesRandy Milch loathed the idea of becoming a lawyer for quite some time. While majoring in history during his undergraduate years at Yale, his older brother Tom—a Yale alum and current chair at the Arnold & Porter law firm in Washington, D.C.—would often return to campus to interview prospective law students for summer jobs at his firm. During these visits, he would invite his younger brother to dine with the candidates. Milch remembers, “I would go out to dinner with these young law …
Family Guy
Albert Momjian wrote the book on family law, literallyIt was just after 3 a.m. when the telephone rang. Albert Momjian’s wife Esther sat up, rubbed her eyes and watched as her husband rolled over and picked up the receiver. He listened for a few minutes, said some consoling words, hung up. “Who was it?” she asked. A client, Momjian said. A woman in the middle of a divorce. The woman—who had been caught having an affair with her nephew, which her husband discovered after placing a voice-activated recorder under their bed—called to say …
Lawyer, Uninterrupted
Although Shevelle McPherson’s adolescence ended abruptly, that didn’t stop her from becoming a top trial lawyerFor most people, the transition from youth to adulthood is gradual and takes years. For Shevelle McPherson, it happened in one day. The day she found out she was pregnant. “My parents sat me down and said, ‘You’re a child but you’re now living with an adult situation, and facing adult responsibilities,’” she recalls. She was 15 at the time. “That’s when I realized it was time to sink or swim.” She swam. Today, not only is the 39-year-old McPherson the proud mother of Lamar, …
Walder’s Pond
Justin Walder doesn’t let winning or losing change his essential self (although he usually wins)Justin Walder’s large office in Roseland has a spare aesthetic. He has some paintings on the walls, some family photos behind his desk. Nothing fancy. But one thing stands out. It’s a shot of Walder with two of his adult children and two of his grandchildren at Super Bowl XLII in Arizona (he has three children, who are all lawyers, two stepchildren and nine grandchildren in all). You remember, the game where the New York Giants pulled off one of the biggest upsets in history and beat the …
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