Edward Adams

Current

• Editor & Publisher at ABA Journal

Past

• Public Information Officer at U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Editor at New York Law Journal

Education

• Columbia University School of Law
• Miami University

Connections

203 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

• My Company
• My Twitter Feed
• My Facebook Page

Edward Adams’s Summary

I manage the editorial and business operations of the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. We cover the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. More than half of the nation's 1.1 million lawyers read us every month.

Edward Adams’s Experience

• Editor & Publisher

  ABA Journal

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

• Public Information Officer

  U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Judiciary industry)

  June 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 3 months)

  As the only public information officer working in the federal trial courts, I created media relations plans for dozens of high-profile cases nationwide, including those of al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi, al Qaeda scout Iyman Faris, Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy. Collaborated with judges, court administrators, and representatives of local law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Department of State, the National Security Agency and more than 150 media organizations.

• Editor

  New York Law Journal

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  May 1989 — May 2002 (13 years 1 month)

  Reported about the business of major law firms and created and ran websites for this daily newspaper for lawyers, which is part of American Lawyer Media.

Edward Adams’s Education

• Columbia University School of Law

  J.D. , 1985 — 1988

• Miami University

  B. Phil. , Interdisciplinary Studies , 1981 — 1985

  Activities and Societies:

  Magna Cum Laude

Additional Information

Edward Adams’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Twitter Feed
• My Facebook Page

Edward Adams’s Groups:

•    Legal Marketing
•    ABA Friends
•    Legal Blogging
•    Magazine Publishers of America (MPA)
•    Columbia Law School
•    Association Media & Publishing (formerly SNAP)
•    ABA Young Lawyers Division
•    FOLIO: Show
•    FOLIO: MediaPRO -- Magazine & eMedia Publishing Professionals
•    Digital Publishing Network
•    American Bar Association TECHSHOW (ABA TECHSHOW)
•    min Media Group
•    Legal Innovation

Edward Adams’s Honors:

ABAJournal.com named Webby Awards People's Voice winner in Law category, May 2008

Named to the Folio 40, Folio Magazine's list of the "most influential people in magazine media," April 2008