Law Practice
Feb. 5, 2021
An Interview with: Professor Ty Alper
Next in the Negotiating Trauma & the Law Series, Professor Ty Alper speaks about representing clients on death row; being hyper-aware of racial privilege; training a new generation of lawyers who do not seek to suppress the trauma of lawyering; and knowing that ‘putting the client first’ does not mean leaving the lawyer’s own emotions for last.
Mallika Kaur: After all your years of working with and training attorneys, would you say capital defense attorneys are born or made? Is there a certain personality-type drawn to this work?
Ty Alper: I'm a big proponent of the idea that anyone can be any kind of lawyer they want to be. This is especially true of capital de...
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