For twelve years, Allison Leotta served as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in sex crimes,...
Lee Rawles joined the ABA Journal in 2010 as a web producer. She has also worked for...
Author Allison Leotta has used her 12-year experience as a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to bring real-world issues into her fiction. Leotta has written five novels chronicling the adventures of her protagonist, prosecutor Anna Curtis. The most recent, The Last Good Girl, takes on the issue of campus sexual assault at a fictional private college in Michigan.
The ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles spoke with Leotta about how she shifted her career from lawyer to author; why the issue of campus sexual assault is so timely; and what’s next for her intrepid heroine Anna Curtis.
The Last Good Girl by Allison Leotta
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Published: | June 22, 2016 |
Podcast: | ABA Journal: Modern Law Library |
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