Lisa Needham is an attorney who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. She is also an adjunct law professor focusing on teaching legal writing to non-traditional students. She is the deputy editor of Lawyerist, where she writes about access to justice and diversity in the law, and she is also the editor-in-chief of Bitter Empire.
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