Essays drawn from three decades inside America's largest local prosecutor's office — on reform that holds, the long road for women in law, mental health and the courts, and the quiet decisions that define a career.
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Read article →The most important reform a prosecutor can announce is the one that holds her own past work to the same standard as everyone else's.
Read article →A short, practical guide to the support, services, and legal rights available to victims of violent crime in California — written for the people who need it most.
Read article →Remarks delivered at my alma mater on the role of prosecutors in repairing public trust, and what the next generation of lawyers owes the system they're inheriting.
Read article →From the first race-based hate-crime murder conviction in LA County to today's quieter, deeper work — what's changed, what hasn't, and what the next two decades demand.
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