Lewis Silkin‘s reputation management team excels in all aspects of media law, including defamation, privacy, malicious falsehood, data protection and harassment matters, representing both claimants and defendants. The team is also skilled in handling sensitive and high-profile employment investigations. Practice head Adam Glass,'an incredibly knowledgeable and experienced lawyer', specialises in crisis management for prominent publishers. Oliver Fairhurst advises clients on the entire range of reputation management and privacy mandates, with a focus on issues relating to social media.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Lewis Silkin have an unrivalled depth of experience in this sector, with a practice focussed closely on a small number of industries. This enables them to bring their valuable commercial insight to all of their work.’
‘Adam Glass is an incredibly knowledgeable and experienced lawyer in a number of aspects of reputation management. He is an excellent defamation lawyer and is also able to work strategically across other areas in order to protect his client's reputations. This is only possible because of his breadth of experience. He has a calm manner and works particularly well in pressurised situations.’
‘Adam Glass is a stellar performer, and he is the kind of lawyer you want on your side when the proverbial hits the fan. He is bombproof. He has deep experience as both a catcher and poacher with the media, which means his clients always receive excellent practical as well as legal advice. He is generous with his time and goes the extra mile to provide support to clients.’
‘The team is very responsive, informed, and offers excellent advice on defamation and privacy law.’
‘Adam Glass is dedicated, responsive, and very experienced and knowledgeable in his field.'
Key clients
- Tortoise Media
- Freemantle
- Indeed
- Haymarket Media
- Watershed Investigations
Work highlights
- Advised Fremantle Media Limited when a high-profile talent issued proceedings against our client for an alleged infringement of their data protection rights and misuse of private information, claiming millions in damages.
- Advised Tortoise Media, who sought a judicial review of the Conservative Party’s refusal to provide information regarding its membership and the election process in respect of the leadership election between Rishi Sunak MP and Liz Truss MP to become the next leader of the Party and thereby Prime Minister. This was an important action concerning the right of press access to public information.
- Advised on a lengthy Department of Justice (DoJ) into overseas bribery and corruption at a financial services company.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Adam Glass