Edelman

In complex litigation, public perception can be as influential as legal arguments, while a Court judgment may not provide the commercial outcome a client requires. Edelman’s Litigation and Legal Affairs practice equips lawyers with the tools to manage this dynamic effectively, shaping narratives, engaging stakeholders, and mitigating reputational risks to reinforce legal strategies and drive success in both courtrooms and the public sphere.

Scope and Expertise: Edelman’s Litigation and Legal Affairs practice, a specialist offering within the global Crisis & Risk team, delivers strategic communications counsel for clients and their instructed law firms navigating legal or regulatory challenges. Operating across Edelman’s global network—with over 60 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific—our team ensures clients’ communications objectives are met while maintaining legal professional privilege. The group’s expertise encompasses a diverse range of matters, including cross-border disputes, antitrust litigation, cyber incidents, product recalls, regulatory investigations, labor issues, and environmental cases.

Comprehensive Services for Success in Litigation & Legal Affairs: Edelman bridges the gap between legal strategies and public perception through tailored communications strategies that mitigate reputational risks and enhance litigation outcomes. Core services include strategic reputation management, narrative development, stakeholder analysis and engagement, media training, and real-time media monitoring. By embedding communications expertise directly into the legal process, Edelman helps clients and law firms address both public-facing and client-specific challenges.

Leveraging our deep investigative experience and legally qualified personnel throughout our teams, Edelman can also provide bespoke research and qualitative and quantitative analysis, offering fully sourced background reports on witnesses, attorneys and adversarial parties, which include an analysis of the issues and key findings. These investigations turn information into actionable insights that inform legal strategy, discovery and trial preparation and help clients obtain favorable outcomes both inside and outside the courtroom.

Global Reach with Local Precision: With over 60 offices worldwide, Edelman employs a hub-and-spoke model to deliver cross-border litigation and legal affairs communications that combine consistency in messaging with deep understanding of and respect for cultural and legal nuances. This approach ensures clients and law firms can maintain a unified narrative, even in complex multi-jurisdictional cases, leveraging Edelman’s localized insights alongside its global reach.