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Counsel that knows what's at stake — because it has been there.

A focused practice for organizations, counsel, and leaders working at the intersection of law, ethics, and public trust.

Engagement Areas

Six ways Jackie works with clients.

Each engagement is bespoke, confidential, and shaped around outcomes — not billable theater.

01
Justice-System
Strategic Counsel
Advisory

Strategic counsel for prosecutorial and reform leaders.

Discreet, senior-level advisory for District Attorney's offices, Attorneys General, public defenders, reform organizations, and philanthropic initiatives navigating the modern criminal-justice landscape.

  • Office leadership and transition planning
  • Charging policy, declination policy, and integrity unit design
  • Stakeholder strategy with law enforcement, courts, and community
  • Press, communications, and crisis response counsel
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02
Expert Witness
& Consulting
Expert Witness

Expert testimony & pre-litigation consulting.

Expert work in matters where the conduct of prosecutors, supervisors, or charging decisions is at issue. Selective engagements, plaintiff or defense, civil or criminal — only where Jackie can speak from genuine experience and conscience.

  • Prosecutorial ethics & standards of conduct
  • Charging-decision review and supervisory responsibility
  • Use-of-force and officer-involved-incident review
  • Brady, discovery, and disclosure obligations
  • Office management and policy implementation
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03
Keynotes &
Public Speaking
Speaking

Keynotes, panels, and fireside conversations.

Jackie speaks to audiences from law schools and bar associations to philanthropies, conferences, and corporate forums on the subjects she has lived: leadership in public service, women in law, mental health and justice, and reform that actually holds.

  • Leadership lessons from running America's largest local DA office
  • Women, race, and the legal profession — what changed, what hasn't
  • Mental health diversion: from idea to scaled program
  • Animal cruelty, hate crimes, and how prosecutors choose what matters
  • Public safety and fairness in an age of distrust
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04
Program &
Policy Design
Reform Design

Designing programs that survive the next election.

Reform that lasts is reform that is built — not announced. Jackie advises on the operational design, staffing, training, and metrics that turn good ideas into durable programs.

  • Diversion and treatment court design
  • Victim-services pipelines & trauma-informed protocols
  • Conviction Integrity Units and post-conviction review
  • Hate crime, elder fraud, and human-trafficking units
  • Cross-agency collaboration frameworks
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05
Crisis &
Reputational Counsel
Crisis Counsel

When the next decision matters more than the last.

Calm, experienced counsel for institutions and individuals facing high-stakes scrutiny — investigations, regulatory inquiries, reputational crises, and the long tail that follows a public moment.

  • Internal-investigation strategy and scope
  • Counsel coordination across legal, communications, and governance
  • Board-level briefings and advisory
  • Stakeholder and community-relations strategy
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06
Mentorship &
Boardroom Service
Mentorship

Boards, fellowships, and the next generation.

Selective board appointments — civic, philanthropic, and industry — and mentorship for women and lawyers of color stepping into leadership. Some of the most meaningful work, often the least visible.

  • Independent & advisory board service
  • Fellowship and pipeline-program advisory
  • Direct mentorship for senior women and lawyers of color
  • Speaking to law schools and bar associations
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How Engagements Work

Quiet by design.
Useful by intent.

Step · 01

Confidential
Intake

A 30-minute conversation to understand the matter, the stakes, and whether Jackie is the right counsel for it. No commitment.

Step · 02

Engagement
Letter

If we proceed, a clear letter setting scope, deliverables, fee structure, and confidentiality. No surprises.

Step · 03

Working
Counsel

Hands-on, senior-level work — direct access to Jackie, not handed down to a junior associate. Brief, frequent, useful.

Step · 04

Closing the
Loop

A clear handoff, written summary where appropriate, and an open door if the matter resurfaces.

Working Principle
The work that matters most is rarely the work that makes news. It is the long, careful work of building systems that keep doing the right thing when no one is watching.
Jackie LaceyFounder, Lacey Counsel
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The first conversation is always confidential.

Tell us briefly what you're navigating. Jackie reviews every inquiry personally.

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