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Crisis Management & Strategic Response

When you’re faced with an impending crisis, Benesch provides comprehensive and proactive representation that minimizes your legal exposure, protects your business interests and preserves your reputation.

The Right Team. The Right Approach. The Right Result.

Benesch’s Crisis Management & Strategic Response team includes top-notch litigators and government relations professionals, along with attorneys focused in corporate and securities law, intellectual property, labor and employment, white collar defense, defamation law and data and security. Together, we bring the skills, experience and connections needed to respond swiftly and holistically when a crisis is imminent.

Whether facing a white-collar crime allegation, data breach, patient death, product recall, natural disaster, construction accident, building collapse or global incident, our team has what it takes to successfully guide our clients through the crisis, preserve their reputation, limit their exposure and help avoid future incidents.

Media, PR and Stakeholder Strategies and Communications

Our lawyers are practiced in utilizing media, consumer, employee and stakeholder relations to minimize damage and protect our clients. Working hand-in-hand with highly skilled communications and PR firms, we take a multipronged, strategic approach to meet each client’s unique needs. We know what to do, when and how. That makes us efficient and effective, which often means that we lead the narrative and spin the story instead of merely responding to bad press.

Risk Avoidance Strategies and Counsel

Our lawyers conduct internal audits to uncover risk and investigate potential claims. Working closely with our clients, we establish best practices, policies and protocols and offer training on risk avoidance strategies to prepare our clients’ executives, managers and employees should a crisis arise.

Data Privacy Litigation & Enforcement Defense

Benesch’s Data Privacy Litigation & Enforcement Defense team leverages its vast data security and privacy law knowledge and experience to handle high-stakes privacy and cybersecurity matters for our clients in courts nationwide and before government regulators. We guide our clients through crises, from forming incident response plans and crafting strategic crisis communications to advocating for clients with enforcement agencies and achieving favorable litigation outcomes.

White-Collar, Government Investigations & Regulatory Matters

Representing major corporations, officers, board members, executives, high-profile individuals and public entities, Benesch lawyers protect our clients’ layered interests when they face regulatory investigations and high-stakes white-collar matters.

When a crisis arises, we conduct rapid-fire internal investigations to understand the depth and breadth of the risk. Then, we leverage our credibility and connections to get our clients a fair shake, develop creative legal strategies that maximize their chances of success, and collaboratively execute communications strategies that protect our clients’ reputations.

Defamation Matters

Benesch is widely recognized as having the country’s leading high-stakes defamation practice. We have a strong track record of preventing the publication of falsehoods by engaging with publishers and platforms before content is released. We also frequently force retractions or corrections through focused and strategic media intervention when our clients have already been targeted.

When litigation becomes necessary, Benesch moves fast, and we have prevailed time and again. In fact, we obtained a multibillion-dollar defamation suit victory recognized as the largest defamation action in U.S. history.

Our Work in Action - Representative Examples

  • Represented Launch House in its ongoing discussions with various news organizations and internal and external stakeholders in response to allegations of misconduct stemming from an investigative report by Vox.
  • Stopped a politically driven, defamatory long-form broadcast about a client before it aired on a major news network.
  • Halted national republication of defamatory content from various affiliated media outlets by issuing more than 150 cease and desist letters in 48 hours.
  • Prevented a major media outlet from reporting inaccurate findings resulting from its investigation into a global investment and advisory financial services firm.
  • Prevented the broadcast of defamatory commentary about a client through direct communication with the news show’s producer.
Key Contacts
  • J. Erik Connolly
    Litigation
    Chicago
  • Kate Watson Moss
    Litigation
    Chicago

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