ANDREEA PARC
Speaker on the Psychology of Professional Downfall Risk & Decision Intelligence Advisor to Attorneys
The Attorney Who Crossed the Line
Now Helps You See Where Yours Is.
THE NUMBER THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
“At Danbury Federal Prison Camp, 12 of the 180 women were attorneys. These were not careless people. They had passed the bar, practiced for years, built careers around knowing the rules. And they were in prison. And so was I.”
I was a licensed New York attorney. I was convicted on federal charges of asylum fraud and making false statements. I served time at MCC — the same facility that held El Chapo — and then at Danbury Federal Prison Camp.
I was not reckless. I was not ignorant of the law. I was someone who justified her way into each decision, the way intelligent, high-functioning professionals do under pressure. I rationalized. I minimized. I told myself the story that high-stakes attorneys tell themselves every day.
That story is the mechanism I now spend my career exposing.
HOW I WORK
SPEAKING Bar Associations · Law Firms · Law Schools When the Attorney Becomes the Defendant: The Psychology of How Ethical Lines Are Crossed A CLE program and keynote built on direct lived experience — not theory, not case study. The talk no other ethics speaker can give. [ View Speaking Programs ] | ADVISORY Law Firms · Managing Partners · Senior Attorneys Risk & Decision Intelligence Advisory Private, confidential advisory for firms and leaders who understand that behavioral risk is the crisis no compliance policy prevents. |
THE QUESTION EVERY ATTORNEY AVOIDS
The attorneys most certain they would never cross a line are often the most at risk.
Not because they are careless. Because certainty is the condition in which the pattern forms undetected.
My work — whether in a keynote, a CLE program, or a private advisory engagement — makes the pattern visible before it becomes irreversible.
[ Book a Speaking Engagement ]
