USC Gould
School of Law
Juris Doctor, 1982. One of the nation's preeminent law schools, in the city Jackie has practiced her entire career.
The story behind a legal practice with the discipline to do exactly one thing well — take content, accounts, and communities off Reddit.
Jackie Lacey grew up in Los Angeles, the only child of a City of Los Angeles worker and a garment-factory seamstress. They were not a family of lawyers. They were a family that believed an education and a steady moral compass could carry their daughter further than the streetcorner they could see from the front door.
She graduated from Dorsey High School, earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology at UC Irvine in 1979 — the first in her family to graduate from college — and three years later earned her Juris Doctor at the USC Gould School of Law and joined the California Bar.
The California Bar admission number issued to her in 1982 has been in continuous good standing ever since.
Sworn in after earning a JD from USC Gould School of Law. The beginning of a career built entirely inside California law.
Decades of legal work across investigations, trial practice, ethics, and institutional counsel — the kind of career that teaches you which arguments actually move a general counsel, and which don't.
A repeated pattern in inbound calls: a Reddit post, a subreddit, an account — content that traditional counsel had been unable to remove. Not because removal was impossible, but because it required a specific fluency in Reddit's three-tier architecture and Content Policy.
A deliberate narrowing: a single-focus legal practice for Reddit removal — post, account, subreddit, user ban, and subreddit suspension. No divorce cases. No PI. No SEO retainers. One platform.
The removal framework used in every engagement — Reddit's moderator / admin / legal-team pathways, mapped against the seven enforceable legal theories that survive contact with Reddit's Content Policy team.
Every engagement is a Reddit takedown. Every retainer is scoped to one of five outcomes. If a matter falls outside the practice, the answer is an honest referral, not a fee.
Jackie Lacey
Founder · Law Office of Jackie Lacey
The lawyers who are good at removing content from Reddit are the lawyers who only remove content from Reddit. Reddit is a specific stack — moderators, admins, Anti-Evil Ops, Legal — and each of them speaks a different language. You either commit to learning all four, or you hand the matter to someone who has.
Juris Doctor, 1982. One of the nation's preeminent law schools, in the city Jackie has practiced her entire career.
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1979. First in her family to earn a college degree.
Admitted 1982 — in continuous good standing for over four decades.
A deliberate specialization: post removal, account removal, subreddit removal, user bans, and subreddit suspensions.
Recognized by both alma maters for distinguished service to the legal profession.
Recognized by the California Women's Law Center and others as a trailblazer for women in legal leadership.
Jackie has called Granada Hills home for decades. She married David Lacey in 1980; together they raised two children, Kareem and April. David passed away in 2022.
Today Jackie remains a yoga practitioner, an avid reader of biography and history, and a mentor to dozens of young lawyers — a woman who still believes, after four decades in the profession, that the law is only as good as the people willing to use it correctly.
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