From The Cut authored by Callie Beusman:
“In 2013, when Carrie Goldberg was 35, an ex-boyfriend began viciously stalking and harassing her over the internet, threatening to send intimate photos of her to her colleagues. At the time, she was working as a director of legal services at a criminal-justice nonprofit; there weren’t really any attorneys who specialized in cases like hers. So she decided to start her own practice — becoming, as she puts it, “the lawyer I needed.” Today she’s a preeminent victims’ rights attorney, overseeing her own firm, which has over a dozen employees and specializes in cases of sexual assault, stalking, blackmail, and revenge porn. Or, in her brazen, chatty parlance: victims of “pervs, assholes, psychos and trolls.” (She has a book, which references all these archetypes in its title, coming out in August, and Anonymous Content and Paramount TV are developing a show about her life.)
Goldberg is a formidable presence. She’ll appear in court in 6-inch stilettos, bright manicures, and glamorous outfits, and proceed to “sue the fuck out of” perpetrators, as well as the powerful systems that enable them — multi-billion dollar school districts that looked the other way in rape cases, for instance, or tech companies that allegedly allowed harassment to proliferate on their platforms. Her office, which spans an entire floor, is pristine and filled with pastel velvet furniture, including a particularly nice decorative crimson velvet punching bag in the corner; she says she likes when opposing counsel comes in and feels thrown off. The Cut caught up with her at work, where she talked about getting dressed to dominate, the joys of being one’s own boss, and her love of seeing castrated statues at the Met.”
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