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Mike Avella Jr. remembers petitioning alongside his father – the state government veteran Michael Avella – when he was only 10 years old. The father and son duo still work together, now at Dickinson & Avella, a strategic governmental relations firm focusing on the state Capitol. As a government affairs associate, Avella Jr. represents the interests of a multitude of clients ranging from large corporations to advocacy coalitions.
“We represent so many different people,” the younger Avella says. “I don t think there s a sector that we don t touch. One minute I could be working on technology, the next one on voting rights, then criminal justice reform, and then helping out the Mets safely reopen.”
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But her latest,
While Justice Sleeps, enters a new territory for her: It s a breakneck legal thriller. It follows Avery Keene, a law clerk in Washington, D.C. who finds herself involved in a controversial court case surrounding an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm and a potential conspiracy that reaches to the deepest levels of the government. I am excited to step into the world of legal suspense novels and political thrillers with
While Justice Sleeps, Abrams says. The tensions of politics and power are the core of this story people scrambling for leverage and desperate to win. And having been a young lawyer myself once, I explore what it means to have authority but no real power. How do you navigate those spaces when there is work to be done and you re it?