Defamation/Reputation Management

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Provided by Lee & Thompson LLP

Lee & Thompson provides a quality ‘one stop shop’ service for clients across the media, technology, entertainment and creative industries. Ably led by Mike Brookes, the firm's Reputation Protection Group is a critical part of this offering.  We work closely with the firm's specialist departments to ensure that our advice on reputation issues is commercially astute and ties in with our clients’ wider professional objectives and personal relationships.

Our specialist advice encompasses the following

• Obtaining emergency injunctions
• Preventing and challenging publication or broadcast of damaging stories or private information
• Online privacy protection and defamation issues
• Defamation (libel, slander), privacy, copyright and data protection litigation
• Phone hacking claims against Newsg
• Protecting high profile individuals from harassment by the paparazzi, the media or online
• Pre-publication content clearance and advice to publishers and content creators
• Obtaining social media, search engine and website takedowns, corrections, removal of unlawful content and unmasking anonymous defendants
• Making complaints to media regulators and the Information Commissioner Office
• Providing pre-emptive, commercial advice on brand and reputation protection and enhancement