Legal Crises Strategies
In today’s media-saturated environment, businesses, organizations and individuals have two critical junctures at which they can most effectively manage public and governmental scrutiny: before a situation arises, and as it unfolds. The lawyers and professionals of McDermott Will & Emery’s Legal Crises Strategies group have decades of experience helping clients worldwide identify potential risks and implement appropriate controls and policies to minimize the likelihood of legal, business and public-relations controversies. When unforeseen events do arise, we work quickly and effectively to help clients take control of fast-moving, high-stakes investigations, news stories and media events, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.
Members of our practice have successfully represented individuals, businesses and governments around the globe in a broad range of matters, including the following:
- U.S. Congressional, Department of Justice and federal regulatory investigations
- Discrimination based on race, age, sex and other factors
- Antitrust violations
- Industrial and environmental accidents
- Accounting and financial reporting irregularities
- False Claims Act and qui tam matters
Our services are both comprehensive and highly coordinated. For example, drawing on our unique combination of political, legal and media acumen, the group has successfully represented clients who are under Congressional investigation, while simultaneously fighting off shareholder derivative lawsuits and negative media coverage. In addition, we regularly assist clients in meeting strategically important business goals, such as obtaining regulatory approval for high-stakes mergers and acquisitions from the European Union, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and other U.S. and international regulatory bodies.
McDermott’s Legal Crises Strategies team is defined by its unique blend of highly experienced lawyers, public-relations professionals, and media and legislative strategists, many of whom have served in the top echelons of government, business and the press. Members of the group have in the past served as Special Counsel to the White House; as a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act; as elected officials, including a former state governor and former state legislators; as senior counselors and advisors to numerous U.S. congressional representatives, legislative committees and U.S. Cabinet members; as award-winning, veteran journalists; and as lobbyists and counsel to numerous labor and industry organizations.
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- Stephen M. Ryan
+1 202 756 8333
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