Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old high school student in Saratoga, Calif., hung herself on September 12, 2012. Eight days earlier, she had been sexually assaulted at a party by three boys she knew who took photos that were posted online and spread around her high school.
When news of the Potts’ suicide reached Carrie LeRoy, then counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Palo Alto, not far from Saratoga, she wanted to help ensure that no teen even felt that helpless.
“At that moment I put my head down on my desk and I just felt like something desperately ...
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