Tackling Sexual Extortion with Legislation
"We're hoping that the concept will catch fire and that people will start introducing legislation on their own, and that has started happening a bit." — Ann Patterson
April 30, 2018 at 02:00 AM
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This article is part of National Law Journal's 2018 Pro Bono Hot List recognition package that celebrates law firms that do well by doing good. See the other stories here.
Toward the end of 2016, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe attorneys celebrated the culmination of hundreds of hours of research outlining nationwide deficiencies law enforcement faced in tackling the emerging problem of sexual extortion.
The firm, working alongside Legal Momentum and Thompson Reuters Foundation, had just put out “A Call to Action: Ending 'Sextortion' in the Digital Age.” But the team didn't stop with the report. Instead, it spent the next year implementing the findings.
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