Georgia ACLU revamps its mode doing business with new legal director
Janet L. Conley reports on the Daily Report:
That’s because the new legal director has little experience practicing law and none at all litigating cases. Chara Fisher Jackson, the new legal director, is a 1997 graduate of William & Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law . . . Rather, Jackson said her role would be to support the “wealth of attorneys” at private law firms who agree to handle cases for the ACLU.
She’ll do that by essentially acting as a clearinghouse or conduit, connecting local cooperating attorneys with ACLU staff lawyers in various parts of the country who have the expertise to advise them, or by referring them to experienced local attorneys or board members who can help with constitutional and other issues that may be unfamiliar to corporate lawyer volunteers.
That’s very different from the role played by her predecessor . . .