PAUL BLANCHARD
Blanchard speaks to Spear’s having just flown in from the States, where he’s recently taken on several major clients, prompting…
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ANTHONY SIMON
‘People see the world differently,’ says Simon of the ‘contextual shift’ in Western politics. It is a trend that called…
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RODDY CHISHOLM BATTEN
‘It just keeps coming,’ says Chisholm Batten of the torrent of phone-hacking claims he continues to take on against both…
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MIKE BROOKES
‘Defamation is still alive and well,’ says Brookes, dispelling any notions of the initial doom and gloom that plagued claimant…
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GERRARD TYRRELL
A privacy and reputation lawyer whose own reputation stands ‘second to none’ according to peers, Tyrrell is known to represent…
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RICHARD ABBEY
Abbey started his career as an accountant at EY in 1988, working on the firm’s renowned forensic fraud and investigations…
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MARK STEPHENS
A solicitor who’s recognised more often than some of his famous clients (he even had his own Spitting Image puppet),…
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MATT CARTER
‘We are a small, and almost hidden partner to many big companies,’ says Carter. ‘We don’t want to make the…
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NIRI SHAN
Defining the role of a lawyer in this field may have been a nebulous area in the past five years…
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MATTHEW FREUD
There’s no sense of let-up for Freud, even as Brexit bites, the Chipping Norton Set exit stage right, and some…
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AMBER MELVILLE-BROWN
Spear’s Reputation Lawyer of the Year in 2016 and solicitor of choice to the likes of the Duke of Marlborough,…
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RAMONA MEHTA
Mishcon’s straight-talking head of reputation protection is always vigilant on behalf of clients. One needs to stay ‘two steps’ ahead…
ByAMY BRADBURY
Bradbury was drawn to the ‘dynamic nature’ of the reputation management world, where ‘speed is of the essence’, after a…
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EMMA WOOLLCOTT
When mired in vicious reputation crises, especially those emerging from the cloak of anonymity that the internet provides, ‘clients can’t…
ByPAUL TWEED
For Tweed, it all started over a bun fight: ‘Two of the senior lawyers of their day [QCs] were accused…
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DAN TENCH
Reputation management isn’t getting any easier — just ask respected litigator and legal triage specialist Tench, who’s regularly called on…
ByNIGEL TAIT
It was Tait who obtained the injunction of the year in the celebrity threesome case, PJS v News Group Newspapers,…
ByKEITH SCHILLING
A giant on the British legal scene for more than three decades, Schilling is credited with groundbreaking rulings and changing…
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MARCUS RUTHERFORD
As discreet as some of the clients he advises, Rutherford is a go-to for HNWs under threat from the press.…
ByGERALDINE PROUDLER
An established figure in her field, Proudler has experienced the full spectrum of defamation law, from right to publish to…
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