Bird & Bird LLP‘s defamation and reputation management team excels in handling online reputation matters. With strong credentials in media litigation, Phil Sherrell – ’hugely committed, technically excellent, and commercial with strong client management skills’ – is active in pre-publication issues and defamation cases. Tom Moore represents both claimants and defendants in reputation and crisis management mandates, handling cases from pre-action through to litigation.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Strong team with a broad set of skills so able to bring the right expertise to an issue.’

  • ‘Phil Sherrell is superb. He is hugely committed, technically excellent, and commercial with strong client management skills.’

  • ‘The Bird & Bird team provides quality work in a timely manner. They are excellent!’

Key clients

  • Vice Media
  • PMI (formerly Philip Morris)
  • Glassdoor Inc
  • Reorg
  • Clem Morfuni
  • Airbnb

Work highlights

  • Acting for Glassdoor, Inc in the defence of a Norwich Pharmacal application issued by a UK law firm to uncover the identities of employees posting negative reviews of the firm.
  • Acting for Clem Morfuni on a post-publication basis with various media outlets in relation to stories about the client and his businesses.
  • Defending Airbnb against various defamation claims brought by disgruntled guests/hosts using the Airbnb service.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Phil Sherrell

Other key lawyers

Tom Moore