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
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 …
Icing on the Cake
How Cynthia Hyndman won before the highest court in the landCynthia Hyndman didn’t expect to argue in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, the case she ended up arguing—CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries—crossed her desk largely by chance. “It came into our office through a former partner of ours. She’d had the contact with our client, Hedrick Humphries,” Hyndman says. Humphries was fired from his mid-level management position at a Cracker Barrel for speaking out against the alleged race-based firing of a Black coworker. Humphries sued …
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, …
A Less Taxing Proposition
When things get off track with the IRS, that’s when you call a tax attorneyKeeping track of taxes can be confusing at best and scary at worst. Fortunately, that’s what tax attorneys are for. “When a business owner is first starting their business, it’s important to have a lawyer set up all the entity documentation and decide what kind of tax structure the entity should be,” says Chelsea Rebeck, a tax law attorney at Rebeck & Allen in Southfield. “For the most part, business owners need a tax lawyer and a CPA quite a few times within the life cycle of the …
The Care and Feeding of a Nonprofit
How to launch an organization to do goodA 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 …
Creating a Nonprofit in California: Attorney Insights
Nonprofits need a realistic business plan, reliable funding strategy, and strong leadership to remain viable and serve their communities. Before launching, organizers should assess operating costs, fundraising prospects, competing providers, and whether employees or volunteers can support the mission. A carefully selected board should share the organization's charitable vision and understand its oversight duties. “Where is the money going to come from, what’s the reasonable budget going to …
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 …
The Dos and Don’ts of Starting a Nonprofit
It begins with the size, the board, the name and the missionThe first step when forming a nonprofit or charitable organization, says Stacey DiDomenico, an attorney at Couzens, Lansky, Fealk, Ellis, Roeder & Lazar in Farmington Hills, is to envision its size. “If it’s going to be a very small venture or one-time thing, like a GoFundMe campaign, you don’t necessarily need to register yourself as a business and get tax-exempt status from the IRS,” she says. But if you’re thinking of an ongoing organization, she adds, “You need to look …
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