A focused legal practice built around one thing: removing content, accounts, and communities from Reddit. Defamation, right of publicity, DMCA, doxxing, impersonation, and the policy pathways platforms actually respond to — handled by counsel who works Reddit takedowns and nothing else.
"Reddit is not unmoderated. It's under-litigated. The pressure points exist — you have to know exactly where to push."
Reddit is a three-tier platform: subreddit moderators at the top, site administrators in the middle, and a legal team behind them. Each tier responds to a different vocabulary, a different form, and a different body of law. Most posts, accounts, and subreddits that "can't be removed" simply have never been argued at the right tier, in the right language.
That is the entire practice. Every engagement is a Reddit takedown — post, account, subreddit, user ban, or subreddit suspension — argued under defamation, right of publicity, DMCA §512, California Penal Code §528.5, or the specific line in Reddit's Content Policy that the target crossed.
No billable theater. No handoff to a junior associate. One attorney, one platform, one outcome.
Every engagement is scoped to one of these outcomes. If the matter falls outside this scope, you'll get an honest referral — not a retainer.
Individual posts, comments, and threads removed under defamation, right of publicity, DMCA §512, doxxing policy, or Cal. Penal Code §528.5. Argued at moderator, admin, or legal tier — whichever moves fastest.
Read the guideImpersonation accounts, harassment accounts, and coordinated-inauthentic accounts terminated under Reddit's Content Policy 4 (impersonation), Policy 1 (harassment), and Cal. Penal Code §528.5 online-impersonation statute where applicable.
Start intakeEntire communities removed — hate-based, harassment-based, doxxing-based, or CSAM/illegal-content subreddits. Escalated to Reddit's Safety and Legal teams with a documented policy-and-law package.
Start intakePermanent site-wide bans of specific Reddit users — repeat harassers, impersonators, and doxxers. Filed with evidence packages that Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations team can actually action.
Start intakeSubreddit-level suspensions (temporary or permanent) for communities that violate Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct — brigading, coordinated harassment, or systemic policy failure by the mod team.
Start intakeOther platforms — Google, Yahoo, review sites, social media — are covered by trusted colleagues in the Insights library. If your matter isn't Reddit, we'll say so and point you to the right counsel.
Read the essaysThe full framework — Reddit's three-tier moderation stack, the seven enforceable legal theories that actually work against Reddit content, and the difference between the pathways that move in hours versus the ones that take months. This is the essay clients read before they call.
I don't take defamation cases, or divorce cases, or anything else. I take Reddit off the internet. That's the whole practice — one platform, five outcomes, and the discipline to say no to everything else.Jackie Lacey, Esq. Founder · Lacey Counsel
Confidential intake, response within 24 hours, and a straight answer about whether removal is realistic — before any retainer is discussed.