About Taylor Kuether
Taylor Kuether is a writer, editor, digital storyteller and editorial director. She’s written for Super Lawyers, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Society, HuffPost, The Washington Post and more.
Articles written by Taylor Kuether
Protecting the Unprotected
Joe Monahan’s ongoing campaign for mental health and people with disabilitiesIn 1978, Joe Monahan was running a child welfare agency that handled everything from foster care to counseling and school interventions. Right after starting the job, he pitched a new group home for troubled youth. “I remember the first night I walked into the town, they had an emergency board meeting because the neighbors were all upset, and they protested to not permit us to open,” he recalls. So Monahan suggested another location, then another. “The last place the board of directors …
Vending More Than Chips & Sips
Robert Greenberg’s nonprofit helps people with disabilitiesRobert Greenberg has had a lifelong involvement working with people with disabilities. His younger brother, Matt, has autism, so Greenberg and his parents were always involved in his brother’s programs—like The Arc Montgomery County. “All the things that Matt’s been interested in, we’ve tried not only to help him get involved,” says Greenberg, “but also partake and be a part of that as well.” As Matt started to age out of the educational system, Greenberg and his family looked …
‘The Cool Thing About Pro Bono Work’
Iana Vladimirova took a transgender prisoner’s case hoping to enact changeLike many lawyers, Iana Vladimirova entered law school hoping to make the world a better place. “But, oftentimes, we end up in practice areas where we can’t,” she says. “Pro bono work gives you the ability to help underserved populations fight for the rights you believe in and also work in an area of the law that is underdeveloped.” That’s what attracted Vladimirova to represent Nicole Rose Campbell in Campbell v. Kallas. “I was drawn to this case because it dealt not only with …
Navigating an ‘Irretrievable Breakdown’
What to know when you’re considering a divorceDea Coka’s first advice for anyone looking to hire a family law attorney is to assess their goals. “Figure out where you are in your relationship. Do you want to get divorced, or do you want to move forward with some form of marital therapy or counseling?” says Coka, an attorney at Todd & Weld in Boston. “If the counseling has not worked out, that’s when I recommend a family lawyer be consulted to talk a little bit more deeply about what that client’s future goals are going to …
From the Ground Up
Raysheea Turner works to help others build generational wealthWhen Raysheea Turner was growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, she dreamed of someday helping others who looked like her and who had lived a similar experience. In one recent case, that’s exactly what the real estate attorney did. Turner’s client was purchasing a home that was in disrepair. “It was her first time purchasing a home, and to buy a home that is not even anything that you can live in before you invest a substantial amount of money … she was really nervous,” Turner says. …
‘It Finally Hit Home’
How Kim Scott and the ACLU came to represent 1,400 Iraqis deported by ICEIn June 2017, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arrested more than 100 Iraqis in raids throughout metropolitan Detroit. The American Civil Liberties Union sued, arguing that if the petitioners, many of whom were Chaldean Christians, returned to Iraq, they face persecution, torture or death. “They were to be deported within a few days,” says Kim Scott, a litigator at Miller Canfield. “The local legal community rallied to find volunteer attorneys to represent them in …
The Community Lawyer
Mariah Thompson helps make systemic changeThough attorney Mariah Thompson’s legal background is in international human rights law, she ultimately felt drawn to effecting change in her own backyard in San Joaquin Valley. “I decided I had a duty to address inequitable conditions where I lived,” Thompson says. So, at her firm, she started working in housing law but ultimately wanted to do something that would encourage systemic change. As a staff attorney at nonprofit law firm California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), she gets to …
What to Know About Business Bankruptcy in California
And the alternatives to consider firstLillian Stenfeldt, partner at Rimon Law’s Silicon Valley office, considers bankruptcy a last resort. “There’s a lot you can do pre-bankruptcy,” she says. First, have a backup plan—and a backup plan for the backup plan. “I always urge companies to have an expert come in as soon as possible so they know what alternatives are out there so they can plan accordingly,” Stenfeldt says. “Even if they think their revenue is going to increase with, say, some big new marketing campaign, …
Living Proof
How Victor Pioli and Ramses Jalalpour won a case after losing two key witnessesWhen Ramses Jalalpour and Victor Pioli tried the legal negligence case Maryanne Tadros v. Christine Marte, they were up against a unique hurdle: Two of their three key witnesses, including their client, were deceased. Attorney J. Richard Hisaw passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 5, 2017, after his discovery deposition was taken. “It wasn’t supposed to be trial testimony, but then with his passing, his deposition testimony became his trial testimony,” Pioli says. “You had somebody who …
Numbers Don't Lie
Stephanie Scharf asks tough questions about gender and race in law, then finds answersDriven by her passion for data, Stephanie Scharf started conducting research on women in law in 2006. She sought answers to a big question: Why were women leaving large law firms? “I used to ask some of the senior men, ‘Why is so-and-so leaving?’ and the response was typically, ‘She wants to stay home with her kids,’” says Scharf, founder of the consulting firm The Red Bee Group and partner at Scharf Banks Marmor. “When you would ask the women why they were leaving, they would …
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