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Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar

cases from across the country every week. I'm your host Anna Garcia and we are recording this

on April 7th, 2021. And our guest today is a criminal defense attorney from New York, Lance Clark,

who is a partner at Hamilton Clark. Your offices are on Wall Street, very impressive. Welcome to the

program. Thank you very much. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. We're really excited.

You know, we tend to have a lot of West Coast guests, just simply because we originate from the

West Coast, so we're thrilled to be broadening our horizons to New York City. I just want to talk a

little bit about your expertise only because you're new to the program and we're thrilled to have you.

I understand that you started as a legal aid society attorney early in your career and for those

of you who don't understand the legal aid society of New York is one of like the oldest law firms ever.

It's 145 years old founded in 1876 and basically it's to give legal services to those who don't

have the money to pay for it. Yes, that's correct. You know, I spent eight years at the legal aid

society. I think when I was there, I may have represented close to over 4,000 people during that

time. I probably represented about 5,000 people in my lifetime. But the vast majority of those people

was at the legal aid society where, you know, you get the best instructions, the best experience,

you get right in the fire pit, but you're not waving through the fire alone. You know, you're

blessed to have some of the best supervisors that have been doing this for years. And when you're

practicing at the legal aid society, there's not a case or fat pattern that you have not seen.

Yeah. And when you're representing, you know, clients in New York City, which is a heavily dense

neighborhood, neighborhood, right, city, right? It's a whole city. You get everything from the white

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