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
Rhonda Hazen Balances the Emotional
In addition to family law, she volunteers as an EMT and decompresses with martial arts“I started doing [EMT work] when my triplets were born,” Rhonda Hazen says as she drives home from responding to an emergency medical services call. “They were very premature, and we had to call EMS several times for them. When they got older, I thought it was time for me to give back.” In addition to her full-time job practicing family law at Boardman & Clark, Hazen has served as a certified volunteer EMT. For the past five years, it has been for Barneveld and its surrounding …
From Sorrow to Salvation
How Gabi Silver helped free Richard Phillips from a life sentenceWhen Richard Dan Phillips’ case came to Gabi Silver in 2017, Phillips had already served 45 years for a crime he didn’t commit. Convicted in 1972 for the murder of Gregory Harris, Phillips and Richard Palombo were sentenced to life in prison. “Both ended up getting convicted on, truly, just the worst crap case I’ve ever seen,” says Silver. “A lot of the cases I’ve seen now back from the ’70s, ’80s even, were really terrible—very little evidence, very suspicious evidence, …
The Care and Feeding of Nonprofits
A nonprofit is only as good as its foundation, attorneys agree. “Where is the money going to come from, what’s the reasonable budget going to look like, how will the organization go about doing its business of doing good?” asks Cynthia R. Rowland, who practices nonprofit law at Farella Braun + Martel in San Francisco. “Think of it in terms of having a business plan.” Even nonprofits have to make ends meet, she points out, so it is essential to understand realistic sources of …
The Fight Isn't Over
In 50 years, Flint Taylor has battled Nazis, the KKK, police and the FBI, and he’s still standingOn Nov. 2, 1983, three Chicago police officers repeatedly tortured Darrell Cannon, a homicide suspect, in order to elicit a confession. They beat him with a flashlight, used a cattle prod on his genitals, and thrice put a shotgun in his mouth, told him it was loaded, then pulled the trigger. Eventually, Cannon confessed to a crime he didn’t commit, and served nearly 24 years in prison before he was exonerated. It was while he was in prison that Cannon first learned about civil rights attorney …
The Best Way To Start a Nonprofit
Nonprofit organizations provide a wide variety of important social services. But starting a nonprofit can be quite complicated, especially if you're unfamiliar with tax and corporation laws. In particular, nonprofit businesses need to understand how different state and federal laws affect their structure. States and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) highly regulate different types of nonprofit organizations. Failure to follow nonprofit compliance could result in severe tax penalties. Before …
We Invited Everyone
Justice Brennan’s 80th birthday and other fond memories from Marie Deveney’s clerkshipMarie Deveney was walking down a hallway at University of Michigan Law School when professor Yale Kamisar ran out of his office. “‘You’ve got a clerkship with Brennan,’” she recalls him saying. “He and Wade McCree, who was the former solicitor general, had recommended me, and Brennan contacted them to let them know that I had gotten the clerkship. They knew before I did. “It was an unusual way to get a clerkship, but that’s how Brennan did it,” says Deveney, who is now a …
'Telling a Different Sort of Story'
Mindy Pava’s journey from the newsroom to the courtroomMindy Pava still remembers what periodicals came on which days of the week while growing up in Miami. “We always would get magazines and newspapers,” she says. “I remember waiting on Tuesdays for Newsweek to arrive and Thursdays for Sports Illustrated to arrive. There was a big place for the written word in my household.” A career in journalism felt like a natural fit: She was interested in writing and asking questions. “Because, in my household we were all so well-read,” she …
Lending a Paw
Jen Novoselsky helps rehabilitate court case dogsJen Novoselsky was trying to decompress. “I was working 24/7 and was looking for something to do that would encourage me to take a break and clear my head for a couple hours a week,” says Novoselsky, a partner at Reyes Kurson focusing on complex commercial and financial litigation. “I had, at the time, an absolutely wonderful dog named Alma. She was a pit mix, and people had a lot of reactions to her because of that, even though she was a big sweetheart,” she says. “I had rescued …
Michigan Cannabis Business: Steps To Launch a Startup
Now that Michigan is the first Midwestern state to pass recreational marijuana legislation, it’s quickly become a hub for cannabis-related business ventures. If you’re thinking of getting into greenery yourself, Michigan attorneys have some advice. For starters: Be flexible, as cannabis laws are continuously evolving. “Two years in the cannabis industry is like 10 years anywhere else because things change so much,” says Barton Morris, principal attorney and founder of the …
The Lawyer in Wolf's Clothing
Bodybuilding, engineering and even martial arts influence Wolfgang Mueller’s law practiceBetween competitive bodybuilding, working as an automotive engineer, becoming a licensed sports agent, mastering and teaching martial arts, and volunteering with a youth hockey team, most people wouldn’t find the time to go to law school, become a practicing lawyer and open their own firm. But Wolfgang Mueller isn’t most people. He says the characteristics that allowed him to succeed in one discipline aided him in the others. Take bodybuilding, for example: “The discipline it takes to …
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