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Christy Hardin Smith

Contributor

Christy Hardin Smith is a "recovering" attorney, and was a partner in her own firm for several years, where she practiced in a number of areas including criminal defense, child abuse and neglect representation, domestic law, civil litigation, and she was an attorney for a small municipality, before switching hats to become a state prosecutor. Christy has extensive trial experience, and has worked for years both in and out of the court system to improve the lives of at risk children. Christy now writes daily for the popular liberal blog http://www.firedoglake.com.