Lauren Gottesman is a staff attorney in the Innocence Project's Strategic Litigation Department, where she is responsible for executing a national litigation strategy aimed at preventing coerced and potentially false confessions. Previously, Lauren was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society's Manhattan Criminal Defense Practice. While there, Lauren worked in Legal Aid's Decarceration Project, where she provided consultation, training, and direct advocacy regarding pre-trial detention issues. Lauren clerked for the Honorable James L. Dennis on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. She is a graduate of Cardozo Law School and Trinity College.