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Charlotte Harris

Charlotte Harris

UK 2026

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Practice Areas

Brand & Reputation Management

Career

Charlotte Harris is co-chair of Brown Rudnick’s Brand & Reputation Management team. She has 25 years of experience representing high-net-worth individuals, celebrities, Members of Parliament, professional athletes, and corporations, adeptly navigating crisis situations both behind the scenes and in the public eye. Her clients are typically subject to intense media attention both in the U.K. and internationally. Issues her clients face include injunctions, defamation, privacy, and harassment, often under urgent circumstances. She frequently liaises with news organizations to remove intrusive photographs, property plans, confidential correspondence and incorrect facts.

Charlotte has appeared before various Parliamentary Select Committees, including the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Privacy and Injunctions and has argued key media standard and privacy law issues as this law has developed substantially over the past two decades. Among other notable successes, Charlotte has represented many claimants in the phone hacking claims since 2007 and gave evidence before the Parliamentary Select Committee as part of the Leveson inquiry.

Publications

Co-author, "What do US technology companies need to know about the UK’s Online Safety Act?," Brown Rudnick Briefings (September 15, 2025)

"The Controversy of Slapps," Corporate Disputes Magazine (July-September 2024 Issue)

Clients

High-net-worth individuals, celebrities, Members of Parliament, professional athletes, and corporations.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Defamation/Reputation Management - UK-wide

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Charlotte Harris is the lead European partner in the brand and reputation management group at Brown Rudnick. She is recognised for her considerable experience advising public figures in relation to a range of privacy and reputation management concerns.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Charlotte Harris is astonishingly good.

    Defamation/Reputation ManagementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Charlotte has consistently shown herself to fight as hard as she possibly can for her clients and get the best results.

    Defamation/Reputation ManagementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Charlotte is outstanding in this field. She ascertains her client's interests and objectives, and works out how best to try to achieve those objectives. She is insightful and highly intelligent.

    Defamation/Reputation ManagementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • She is at the top of her game in this field. She is first rate in every sense, a highly reassuring presence on a team, able to cut through to issues that really matter.

    Defamation/Reputation ManagementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
  • Charlotte’s strength lies in her ability to turn complex legal problems into strategic solutions. Her advice is always sharp and tailored to the client’s wider objectives. She is extremely impressive.

    Defamation/Reputation ManagementChambers Guide to the Legal Profession

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