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2 weeks ago | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Not long after his first stint at community college in the 2000s, Philadelphia’s Reginald “Reggie” Streater spent time “in the wilderness”—including a lacquered bar at a TGI Fridays in Willow Grove Park Mall, behind which he slung drinks like “Fridays ’Ritas,” talked to folks, and wondered what should come next. “I was this bright young man who had no idea what he wanted,” says Streater. “I went to school for architecture, and I didn’t do well because it wasn’t my passion.
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2 months ago | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Jared Nelson’s journey from parole agent to workers’ comp lawyer Published in 2025 Louisiana Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on March 26, 2025 Born and raised in New York City, Jared Nelson was earning his B.A. in government at the University of Virginia, and imagining a career in the FBI or CIA, when he met Joelle, now his wife, who is from Louisiana. “My journey truly started when I came down to Louisiana,” Nelson says. “I think the CIA might have been fantasy,” he says, laughing. “But...
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2 months ago | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Published in 2025 New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on March 17, 2025 There’s enough going on in Jeralyn Lawrence’s Watchung law firm to dazzle a visitor before they even get to Jeralyn Lawrence. First there’s the landscaping.
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2 months ago | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Anna Roppo was given a death sentence nine years ago Published in 2025 San Diego Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on March 13, 2025 Anna Roppo knew something was wrong the minute her longtime family doctor dropped the ‘F’ bomb. It was 2016, and Roppo, a litigator at Duckor Metzger & Wynne in San Diego, was sitting in her car in the parking lot of an imaging center, poring over the results of a scan. It used words like “right lobe tumor mass measurements” so it couldn’t be hers. It must’ve...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Social Security law is Stacey J.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Daisy Ayllón ensures her clients’ entire stories are told Published in 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on January 15, 2025 Daisy Ayllón’s definition of success is less about where you end up in life than the distance you traveled to get there. And she doesn’t know anyone more successful than her mother. “This is a woman who doesn’t have more than a sixth-grade education; who grew up in a deeply impoverished farming community in Mexico where women were not valued; who was one...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Barry Ragsdale’s 30-year crusade for one of Alabama’s most notorious killers Published in 2024 Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on November 18, 2024 When senior partners at Sirote & Permutt assigned 31-year-old Barry Ragsdale to the pro bono representation of Judith Ann Neelley in 1989, he tried to pass. “I still have the memo I wrote that said, ‘No, I’m not going to do this because it’s pro bono—I won’t get any credit toward my billable-hour goals and collected-dollar goals,’”...
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Former deputy general counsel Andy Hirth is still working to improve the government Published in 2024 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on November 7, 2024 Andy Hirth wanted to be a man of the people, but, as an adjunct professor of English at the University of Missouri, the people he found himself surrounded by were often the fictional type. “I felt called to do something different, and I thought that different thing was being a lawyer,” he says. Post-law school, Hirth...
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Richard St. Paul has been White House intern, city council member, and mayoral candidate Published in 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on October 22, 2024 At age 12, Richard St. Paul was in social studies class wondering how he could make the world a better place. “Something told me, ‘Become an elected official,’” he recalls. At home, he leafed through World Book Encyclopedia to a section on members of U.S. Congress and the inspiration took. A decade later, he was a...
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
superlawyers.com | Amy White
Published in 2024 Connecticut Super Lawyers magazine By Amy White on October 7, 2024 When asked if she faced any discrimination early in her career, Linda Mariani responds, “Geez, which story do you want?” The women who blazed the trail in law were not only trying to perform in high-pressure jobs with little support, they also faced harassment and discrimination while doing so. This was in the ’70s, before laws prohibited it. Here are the stories of four women who chose law, succeeded when...
