Edward A. Adams

I manage the editorial and business operations of the ABA Journal, 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.

• Does Not Currently Practice Law

Editor and Publisher

ABA Journal

2006 - Current

Public Information Officer

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

2002 - 2006

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

1989 - 2002

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

Columbia Law School

J.D.

1985 - 1988

Miami University of Ohio

B. Phil. (1985) | Interdisciplinary Studies

1981 - 1985

Honors: Magna Cum Laude

People's Voice winner in the Law category

Webby Awards

2008

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

Folio 40

Folio Magazine

2008

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