Clients' reputations are no longer confined to one jurisdiction - particularly when it comes to online media assaults. As international companies and their brands grow, so does the need for a trusted reputation and the need to protect it across multiple territories and regions. Having a proactive cross border media strategy is a vital element in damage control.
Schillings has an established and trusted network of reputation protection specialist lawyers, and has acted as the single point of contact to manage multi-regional threats to reputation and ensuing litigation. By working collaboratively each member firm in our international community of legal experts works with their own clients to manage and protect their reputations both locally and internationally. This community is formalised under the name International Reputation Protection and provides a centralised hub through which a client can have access to specialist, round the clock advice across multiple jurisdictions through one single point of contact.
Key benefits
- Single point of contact for reputation protection, providing a multi-regional solution to an international media crisis.
- Pre-conflict checks. We will check each member of our network is able to act for a client in their jurisdiction. We do this for each country in which a client has a commercial interest so that when a media crisis hits, the legal and communications teams know that they can coordinate their international legal response through one single designated contact.
- Faster response utilising local knowledge of a particular country’s media and the most appropriate legal remedies.