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 include:

• an historic election court case – the first of its kind for 99 years
• the merger of two independent schools and several major law firms
• the appeal against the largest award ordered in UK divorce proceedings
• redundancy programmes in large organisations
• a $150 million claim in the Commercial Court involving Formula 1 motor racing sponsorship
• the enforced departures of several senior executives
• celebrities, senior business people and MPs charged with offences or exposed for sexual misdemeanours
• the voluntary liquidation of a well-known charity
• perception audits for professional institutions and companies
• the recruitment of a director for barristers' chambers and the preparation of a marketing strategy
• a successful defamation claim against a major tabloid newspaper
• potentially high profile sex discrimination claims in financial institutions
• money laundering and negligences investigations in professional firms
• and coaching for the delivery of keynote political addresses, television interview preparation and speech-making guidance.

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)