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Podcast: Slam the Gavel
Episode: Lisa Johnson discusses "Been There Got Out,” and her Legal Abuse Support Group That Helps Others Deal With A Broken Family Court System
Description: Lisa is a state-certified domestic violence advocate in her seventh year (and counting) in the court system. She has represented herself successfully on both the trial and appellate court levels through dozens of court appearances, and her case was just published in the Connecticut Law Journal (March 23, 2021) to be used as legal precedent. She also recently testified before the Connecticut Judiciary Committee to support Jennifers’ Law, which seeks to expand the definition of domestic violence in the courts to include “coercive control.”
She has saved literally hundreds of thousands of dollars by representing herself in court and has been told...