You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law.

Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law

students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession.

Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story.

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Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold.

Today we welcome in our friend Carrie London, managing partner at Schulman and Hill in Greater New York in New York City, focusing on civil rights, police brutality, excessive force, wrongful convictions, personal injury, and workers comp.

Kerry is the chair of the Civil Rights Division of the Brooklyn Bar Association and a board member of the Brooklyn Defender Services and director of the Bronx Bar.

It's amazing.

There's a lot. But let's talk about your most recent accomplishment, which would be founding member of Lawyer Stories Connect. Carrie London, welcome in, man. Thanks for being here, buddy.

I'm very excited to join the Lawyer, buddy. I'm very excited to join the lawyer stories community. I'm very excited to see everything that they have to offer, and I've only been impressed so far, Benny. That's really kind of you. And, like, let's throw out there that we actually met a couple summers ago. We were having an event on a rooftop, a nice day in Brooklyn. I don't get away too often. I was super

pumped to be there. And you come walking in with our friend Kyle Newman. Shout out to Kyle Newman. And dude, you had great energy, man. I knew I liked you right away. I was like, this guy's cool. He's going to be part of like the whole lawyer stories thing. We had a great time. So, you know, I appreciate you coming out there, and I just want to, on behalf of lawyer stories, thank you a great time so you know I appreciate you coming out there and I just

want on behalf of lawyer stories thank you for joining our founding class so um tell us carry

originally a new yorker originally a new yorker I grew up in Westchester and then you know I grew

up with a lot of like-minded individuals in a very Jewish community.

I wanted to reach out from that.

And so instead of going to Michigan or Emery or Cornell, I decided to go to University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

So I went down south for four years, had a great time, met a lot of good interesting people and then I decided to

bring my talents back to New York law school at New York law school and you know I had a great

time meeting a lot of people there people that are now judges co-counsel on the opposite end of

the courtroom and I live here with my family in Soho, New York. And I'm really just taking one day at a time trying to protect the civil rights of New Yorkers as we go forward in this crazy world, Benny. I know. I love that. That's like a, I feel like that's a dream job for like a lot of people in New York. And it's it's got a, or a lot of people people anywhere like in law school you know you always want to like do something that's really impactful and what you do is totally impactful and so we're going to get there in a minute I just want to go through your story a little bit more so like tell us like you know you went to you went to UVA that's that's interesting maybe is there a lot of like politics there or something and there's a lot of

politics there. It's moves just because they speak slower though does not mean the people are

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