Molly Levinson
Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2024
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About
Provided by Molly Levinson
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Molly Levinson is founder and CEO of The Levinson Group (TLG), a premier strategic global communications firm. She is a strategic advisor to influential leaders, businesses, and civic institutions on reputational and brand issues at the intersection of financial markets, policy, the law, and media, and often serves as the lead strategist in global communications campaigns.
Her experience includes decades serving as a senior executive on both sides of high-stakes news: developing and leading hundreds of industry and brand-defining communications campaigns, and conversely, directing political coverage at major media companies. Levinson also serves as a strategic advisor to law firms and lawyers and is an expert on the legal industry, leading some of the most high-profile global efforts successfully integrating legal and communications objectives on both commercial and public interest issues in recent years. National Law Journal has named TLG the top communications firm in the legal industry since 2021, and LawDragon has named Levinson one of the “top 100 legal strategists in the U.S.” since 2020.
Levinson’s expertise in developing and implementing policy and communications strategies is rooted in her experience at the most senior levels of news. An Emmy-award-winning producer, she served as Political Director at CNN and CBS. At both networks, she directed all political reporting, led the networks’ Decision Desks, and served as a primary liaison with national political parties, campaigns, local and national elected officials, Capitol Hill and the White House for every election from 2002 to 2012. Levinson also covered major events including September 11, 2001 and the aftermath, and the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Levinson also serves as an advisor on major social impact and public interest engagement campaigns, which include some of the most notable and headline-grabbing issues over the last several years, including the successful effort to achieve Equal Pay for the U.S. Women's National Team, numerous women’s sports leagues, teams, athletes, and advocates; multiple global efforts on behalf of journalists and journalism including assisting dozens of Afghan journalists to flee the Taliban; and efforts to free Americans detained or held hostage outside the U.S. She has been recognised as a communications and public relations industry leader, receiving notable honours including “Agency Leader of the Year,”Top Women in the Communications Industry,” “Crisis Manager of the Year,” “Top Woman in PR,” “Top 100 Legal Strategist,” “Women’s Empowerment Champion,” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion.”
Levinson serves on the Board of Advisors for Athletes Unlimited, the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation, and the Network for Victim Recovery of DC.
Chambers Review
Crisis & Risk Management
Molly Levinson is the founder and CEO of The Levinson Group. Levinson is exceptionally well regarded by sources for her work on high-stakes reputational matters.
Strengths
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"Molly is unflappable and really tenaciously brilliant, strategic and a real pleasure to work with. She has a great bedside manner as a counsellor and is very patient with lawyers and clients."
"Molly is brilliant at working with lawyers in investigations and litigation to craft a winning messaging strategy.Any client fortunate enough to work with her and TLG is in the best possible hands."
"Molly is so good at complex matters. She has outstanding relationships with news media and is seamless in a team of hard-charging lawyers. She is just highly effective."
"Molly is unflappable and really tenaciously brilliant, strategic and a real pleasure to work with. She has a great bedside manner as a counsellor and is very patient with lawyers and clients."
"Molly is brilliant at working with lawyers in investigations and litigation to craft a winning messaging strategy.Any client fortunate enough to work with her and TLG is in the best possible hands."
"Molly is so good at complex matters. She has outstanding relationships with news media and is seamless in a team of hard-charging lawyers. She is just highly effective."