Assistant Managing Editor
email | 312-988-6078 |Liane Jackson, an assistant managing editor, joined the ABA Journal staff in 2016. She manages the magazine’s Inter Alia and Practice Matters sections. She is an attorney who previously practiced at large law firms in Chicago and New York. Later, Jackson re-careered into journalism, working as a television news reporter and anchor for local and national news. She has also worked as a press secretary and freelanced for the Journal for a number of years. Jackson earned her bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania, her JD from Tulane Law School, and an MSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Jackson founded Free Range Office, a co-working space in the Wicker Park-Bucktown neighborhood in 2013, and she continues to do pro bono work in her spare time.
Students are collateral damage in America’s war on teachers
Jun 1, 2022, 01:40 am CDT
New book explores the spread and hazards of ‘bad speech’ on the internet and its risk to democracy
Jun 1, 2022, 01:20 am CDT
Reigning Supreme: A tipped scale has unbalanced our ‘coequal’ branches of government
Apr 1, 2022, 02:00 am CDT
Race to the Bottom: Guns, vigilantism and unequal ‘justice’
Feb 1, 2022, 02:40 am CST
Debates about ‘freedom’ and ‘choice’ often misconstrue democracy
Dec 1, 2021, 02:30 am CST
Brazen attacks on voting rights define America
Oct 1, 2021, 03:30 am CDT
The Chauvin conviction shows why diverse juries matter
Aug 1, 2021, 02:20 am CDT
How pandemic practice left lawyer-moms facing burnout
Aug 1, 2021, 12:00 am CDT
Bigoted attacks must be met with stronger protections
Jun 1, 2021, 02:40 am CDT
Biden has an opportunity to reform and diversify federal courts
Apr 1, 2021, 02:40 am CDT
Reimagining Policing: Organizations and activists help drive law enforcement change
Feb 1, 2021, 02:10 am CST
There will be blood: COVID-19, coup d’etat and capital punishment
Jan 5, 2021, 02:26 pm CST
Female lawyers face unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic
Oct 1, 2020, 02:50 am CDT
Could this be America’s tipping point?
Aug 1, 2020, 01:25 am CDT
Ballot box battles are more high-stakes than ever
Jun 1, 2020, 01:40 am CDT
Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and America’s cruel justice equation
May 27, 2020, 08:00 am CDT
What Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ says about gun culture in America
May 4, 2020, 08:30 am CDT
Talk of reparations is being revived around the country
Apr 1, 2020, 03:00 am CDT
Behind bars in Scandinavia, and what we can learn
Feb 1, 2020, 01:25 am CST
The curious case of A$AP Rocky
Dec 11, 2019, 09:50 am CST