About Beth Taylor
Beth Taylor has been a senior editor for Super Lawyers since 2003, and has won dozens of awards for headline-writing and editing throughout her career. Previously, she was an editor and covered courts for The Orlando Sentinel. She also worked for go2net and KIRO-TV in Seattle, where she wrote for and edited their websites. In addition, Beth edited The Kitsap Business Journal and Media Inc. Beth has written travel books, including Around Seattle With Kids for Fodor’s and Seattle Day By Day for Frommer’s, and online travel guides for Google. Her travel writing has appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. Beth has a B.A. in communications/journalism and a master’s degree in political science.
Articles written by Beth Taylor
Triple Threat
How a strategy for beating stress turned into a lifetime passion for Ironman athlete Lydia HarleyFive years ago, Lydia Harley found the perfect solution for stress: triathlons. “It was the best decision I ever made,” says Harley, who competed as a gymnast at school in her native Germany. Though she knew only conversational English when she arrived in the U.S., Harley earned her undergrad degree and MBA, then graduated summa cum laude from Nova Southeastern University’s law school. It was after going to work at Kelley Kronenberg that athletics returned to her life, thanks to firm …
Getting the Green Light?Again
Jeffery Robinette’s racing car gives a nod to his Airborne serviceAs the jump doors opened on the C130 Hercules aircraft, it felt like a hurricane was coming through. It was 1985 and Jeffery Robinette had just finished officer candidate school in Fort Benning, Georgia, then signed up for Army Airborne. “When the door light turned from red to green, it was a bit late to have second thoughts,” recalls Robinette, a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney at Robinette Legal Group in Morgantown, West Virginia. “You were going out that door whether you wanted …
Billionaire Loses Bid to Build Huge Palm Beach Mansion
Attorney Joanne O’Connor explains why the town turned him downA Palm Beach billionaire lost his battle to replace his mansion with a much larger, two-story mid-century-modern one when the U.S. Supreme Court in March declined to hear his case. Donald Burns sued Palm Beach in 2017 after the town turned down his architectural plans, saying the new house would be “excessively dissimilar” to neighboring ones. Palm Beach was represented in Burns v. Town of Palm Beach by business litigator Joanne M. O’Connor with Jones Foster in West Palm Beach. Burns …
Can Ukrainian Refugees Come to the U.S.?
Columbus, Ohio, attorney Dmitriy Borshchak sheds light on the situationThe Ukrainian refugee crisis is personal for Columbus, Ohio, attorney Dmitriy Borshchak, who was born in Lviv and whose biological father—who still lives there—told his son last week that he was signing up to join the fight against invading Russian forces. “I’m constantly watching the news,” says Borshchak, who practices family law at the Law Offices of Dmitriy Borshchak. “He’s got an iPhone that I got for him, but I’m constantly checking his location: Where is he, what is he …
Settlements Reached in Collapse of South Florida Condo
Coral Gables attorney Stuart Z. Grossman says the Surfside tragedy has drawn attention to the condition of older buildingsEight months after Champlain Towers South, a 13-story South Florida condo building, partially collapsed and killed 98 people, several settlements have been reached in lawsuits filed in the wake of the tragedy. Stuart Z. Grossman, a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney with Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen in Coral Gables, is representing five families with loved ones who died in the collapse of the Surfside condominium. “They range from people who were just visitors that night,” he says of the …
Putting Anti-Black Racism in Focus
Seattle attorney Jeffery Robinson’s award-winning film explores the legacy of white supremacy in the U.S.Jeffery Robinson has been defending people accused of crimes for more than four decades. But recently, the Seattle attorney’s focus has shifted more to combatting racism through his nonprofit organization The Who We Are Project, which led to the 2021 release by Sony Pictures Classics of his documentary film Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, being shown in select cities. The film, which tells the sobering story of anti-Black racism in the U.S., has won an array of awards, including …
Writing Wills and Trusts in Ohio 101
Writing a will: It’s a chore many people plan to get around to “someday.” It’s not necessarily the most appealing task, and the terminology can seem daunting. Wills, probate, trusts—what exactly do they all mean? What a Will Does A will is fairly straightforward. “It’s a written declaration in which you direct how your property is to be disposed upon your death,” explains Susan E. Wheatley, an estate planning and probate attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister in …
Complicated Family Dynamics
Gabrielle Vidal is often involved in high-drama estate litigation but won’t name namesA quick Google search reveals that Gabrielle Vidal’s trust and estate clients have included Michael Jackson’s mother, Katherine Jackson, in a dispute over her son’s estate; Michael Crichton’s widow, Sherri, in a clash over his will; Sumner Redstone in a case confirming his ability to execute his estate plan; and Carol Burnett, in a guardianship case. Just don’t ask her to name names. “They are people who are going through a really hard time, and their privacy is very important,” …
When Should You Settle a Personal Injury Case?
Most people’s idea of a personal injury case probably includes a courtroom with attorneys doing battle, grilling witnesses and competing to sway the jury. But that’s not the way it usually goes. “Most personal injury cases settle before trial,” says plaintiff’s personal injury attorney Charla Aldous with Aldous Walker in Dallas. But, she adds, “It usually takes the threat of an upcoming trial to get a fair settlement.” Benefits of Settling a Personal Injury Claim Why do the vast …
The Washington Cares Act: How Will It Work for Me?
The good news: Washington is the first state in the country to offer long-term care insurance for its aging residents. The bad news: As with most brand-new ideas, there are a few kinks in the system. The Washington Cares Act provides Washingtonians long-term care benefits—including home care—of up to a lifetime maximum of $36,500 per person. That amount will increase with inflation. However, notes Seattle employment and labor law attorney Tamara Roe, “This is an earned benefit …
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