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LINDA FAIRSTEIN
SHOW TITLE: Sex, Lies, and Crime: An Interview With Sex Crimes Expert and Best-Selling Author Linda Fairstein
BIO:
Honors graduate of Vassar College and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Former prosecutor and one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of violence against women and children.
For three decades, she served in the office of the New York County District Attorney, where she was Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for twenty-five years.
She was the lead attorney in the famous the Robert Chambers "Preppy Murder" case.
She is an internationally bestselling author of a series of crime novels, which feature Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper.
She is also the author of a non-fiction work. Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Fairstein is a media consultant on the issue of the criminal justice system and crimes of violence against women for major networks such as CNN, MSNBC, and cable affiliates.
She continues to practice law as a pro bono representative of victims of violence.
