Sue can provide the following services:

• Litigation support (handling all communications, including the media relations of court cases and disputes of all kinds, whether they go to court or not, usually working alongside the lawyers and in-house or external communications professionals)
• Devising and delivering campaigns
• Risk analysis and risk management processes
• Crisis communications of all kinds
• Presentation skills and media handling coaching
• Perception audits and client satisfaction research
• Marketing, public relations and business development advice
• Internal and external change communications on mergers and restructuring.

If the work requires additional resources, Sue is able to recommend appropriately-skilled specialists with whom she regularly collaborates and has access to media training studios.

Some of the issues on which Sue has advised recently include:

• a $150 million claim in the Commercial Court involving Formula 1 motor racing sponsorship
• the enforced departures of several senior executives
• a celebrity accused of serious criminal offences
• a Member of Parliament exposed for sexual misdemeanors
• the voluntary liquidation of a well-known charity
• a negligence claim against a major law firm
• a perception audit for a professional institution
• the recruitment of a director for barristers’ chambers and the preparation of a marketing strategy
• coaching for the delivery of a keynote political address
• support during a successful defamation claim against a major tabloid newspaper
• two potentially high profile sex discrimination claims in financial institutions
• money laundering investigations in professional firms

Sue’s clients (who cannot be named for reasons of confidentiality) include many of the major law firms, household name celebrities, global companies, barristers’ chambers, Members of Parliament, charities, local authorities, professional institutions, and less well-known businesses and individuals. She can help raise the profile of an organisation, person or issue, or work to keep them out of the public eye. She has also mounted pro bono various campaigns, including one for Sally Clark, which helped achieve her ultimate release from wrongful imprisonment (www.sallyclark.org.uk)