If you’ve represented survivors of sexual assault, you are likely familiar with the victim-blaming tactics defense counsel often use to attack a survivor’s judgment, character, relationship choices, mental health struggles, and sadly, even today, their clothing and shoe choices. Drawing on her experience representing survivors in some of the highest-profile sexual assault cases in the country, Michelle Simpson Tuegel will walk through how to prepare clients for these attacks and explain how they often end up backfiring on defendants.

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