PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR LISE PEARLMAN is a former trial lawyer and judge and nationally recognized speaker whose books have won multiple awards in the categories of law, U.S. History, multicultural nonfiction and social change. Her latest book is The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1 -- The Man Who Got Away. Her 2018 biography Call Me Phaedra: The Life and Times of Movement Lawyer Fay Stender, won the International Book Award for biographies. and The Sky’s the Limit: People v. Newton, The REAL Trial of the 20th Century? won the 2013 International Book Award for books on law. She is also the acclaimed author of With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials of the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today’s America [2017] and American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton [2016] which is a companion to a prize-winning civil rights documentary project of the same name. Pearlman serves as its producer and President of Arc of Justice Productions, Inc. the nonprofit that owns the film project.
