James B. Lieber

Since law school, Mr. Lieber also has pursued an active writing career, contributing articles on an array of topics on law and society, including crime, prisons, street gangs, trials, drug trafficking, sentencing, financial fraud, industry, labor, and bioethics to a host of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Magazine, and Social Policy. His books include Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town (Viking Penguin), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category; and Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland (Basic Books), which was serialized in Regardies Magazine and became the basis for the documentary film, The Rats Below. Mr. Liebers recent writing projects include covering the financial crisis for The Village Voice and the Kids for Cash judicial scandal in Pennsylvania for Social Policy. In 2015, he published Killer Care: How Medical Error Became Americas Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It (OR Books). Podcasts of radio interviews with Mr. Lieber on this important topic can be found at http://www.kabf.org/ and http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-medical-error-became-leading-cause-death/; also see Mr. Liebers speech at The Real Truth About Health Conference in Orlando, Florida in September 2016 on You Tube (link is below). In 2018 Mr. Lieber authored Victory, How Pennsylvania Beat Gerrymandering and How Other States Can Do The Same (OR Books). For accomplishments in law and writing, Mr. Lieber received the Albert P. Marquis Whos Who Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.