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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: What Is a "Good Mother?" Lara Bazelon on Female Ambition, Biological Realities and Going To Trial
Description: Lara Bazelon has a decades-long career as a public defender. She worked as a trial attorney in the office of the public defender in Los Angeles for many years and is currently a law professor at the University of San Francisco, where she directs programs focusing on juvenile criminal justice and racial justice. But she's also a journalist and novelist. This year she published A Good Mother, a legal thriller about a tireless public defender who cuts short her maternity leave to return to work to defend a client. That client, a 19-year-old mother with a baby roughly the same...