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Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold.

Today we welcome Allison Pierre, CEO at Innovative Prosecution Consulting.

Allison is a criminal justice reform advocate, empowering prosecutors to make

smarter policy decisions with data-driven insight located in Washington, D.C. How are you?

I'm wonderful. How are you? Good, good. Good to have you on. Thank you so much for joining us today.

You're doing a lot of interesting work.

I really haven't seen anything like it, so I'm really excited to talk about it.

But first, I'd like to know a little bit about your, like your path to path to the law since this is lawyer stories. Are you, are you from D.C.?

I actually was born in D.C., but I consider myself a New Yorker. Okay, that's right. You worked, you did prosecution in New York, right? So you lived in New York. I was actually about 20 years, but my connection to New York, right? So you lived in New York? Actually, about 20 years, but my connection to New York,

yeah, 20 years in New York City. And most of that time in Brooklyn, I was a prosecutor at the

Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Wow, that's amazing. So like when you, before you went to law

school and everything, like undergrad, maybe before undergrad, did you have a like when you before you went to law school and everything like undergrad,

maybe before undergrad, did you have a moment where you knew you wanted to be an attorney?

Nothing like that. So that's okay. You didn't have like that that huge like a person that was like,

oh, like I'm going to be an attorney. But so what drove you to go to law school? Let's try that.

Well, to your point, I was not the person who knew at age seven. I want to be an attorney.

Sure, sure. But for me, what drove me to law school was I was in college. I went to undergrad

at Columbia. And in college college I saw an attorney in housing

court, which doesn't seem really exciting, but at the time the attorney was doing a cross-examination,

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