Writing
I came to law from writing, and I never stopped doing it.
I am a contributing writer for legal and general-interest publications. Most of what I write is about the courts, and about what happens to people inside them.
The courtroom does not always correct itself.
Most of my op-eds come out of something I watched happen in a courtroom. Writing about it is sometimes the only route there is to changing it.
One piece of it did change. Virginia law did not give victims of online defamation enough time to act, so I drafted the amendment. The statute now carries my name.
The full list of op-eds, essays and interviews sits on the Articles page.
Bylines.
Op-eds and essays, mostly on judicial conduct, courtroom culture and what the profession costs the people in it.
- Virginia Lawyers Weekly
- Fairfax Times
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
- Patch
- Virginia State Bar, member articles
- Fairfax Independent News
Two of them.
A piece in Virginia Lawyer, and the New York Times Women in the World feature.
Virginia Lawyer
The New York Times, Women in the World
Interviews and coverage.
Pieces where I was interviewed or quoted rather than writing the article myself.
- The New York Times, Women in the World
- Authority Magazine
- Virginia Mercury
- VPM
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