The documentary series “Making a Murderer,” which chronicles the case of a Wisconsin man charged with killing a 25-year-old woman, made celebrities out of some lawyers it featured in its deep dive into the criminal justice system. Not coincidentally, one of the filmmakers behind the series has a legal background and past at an Am Law 100 firm.
Laura Ricciardi, who produced the 10-part documentary for Netflix along with Moira Demos, is a graduate of New York Law School, according to her registration on the New York State Unified Court System, which still lists a contact address for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles. Her profile on professional networking site LinkedIn shows that she worked as a contract attorney at the firm for more than five years while making the documentary film.
