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Let's Get Personal with Megan Richardson and Lauren Myerscough-Mueller, Staff Attorneys at The Exoneration Project

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Lauren Myerscough-Mueller and Megan Richardson are both Staff Attorneys at the Exoneration Project, a non-profit based in Chicago, Illinois, which provides free legal services to fight for the wrongfully convicted and free the innocent. Since its founding in 2007, the Exoneration Project has exonerated more than 200 clients.

Prior to starting at the Exoneration Project, Lauren represented the wrongfully convicted at the Illinois Innocence Project, and practiced as a criminal defense attorney in the Chicago area, both as a private attorney and a state public defender. She has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Springfield and the Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Megan started her legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, before becoming a Clinical Fellow in the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. In that position, she worked with students to represent the wrongfully convicted and co-taught a clinical seminar encompassing both substantive law and lawyering skills.

Lauren is a 2008 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and a 2014 graduate of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. And Megan is a 2008 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 2015 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

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Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.

We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.

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Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.

Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.

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Lauren Myerscough-Mueller and Megan Richardson are both Staff Attorneys at the Exoneration Project, a non-profit based in Chicago, Illinois, which provides free legal services to fight for the wrongfully convicted and free the innocent. Since its founding in 2007, the Exoneration Project has exonerated more than 200 clients.

Prior to starting at the Exoneration Project, Lauren represented the wrongfully convicted at the Illinois Innocence Project, and practiced as a criminal defense attorney in the Chicago area, both as a private attorney and a state public defender. She has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Springfield and the Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Megan started her legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, before becoming a Clinical Fellow in the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. In that position, she worked with students to represent the wrongfully convicted and co-taught a clinical seminar encompassing both substantive law and lawyering skills.

Lauren is a 2008 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and a 2014 graduate of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. And Megan is a 2008 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 2015 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

Learn more about The Exoneration Project.

Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com

Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter

Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod

We couldn't do this alone! So...

Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.

We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.

Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com

Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.

Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.com

Find us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter

Find us on Twitter @PersonalJxPod

We couldn't do this alone! So...

Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast.

We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes.

Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.com

Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.

Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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