When your organization faces a high-stakes, high-profile crisis – an event that poses significant risks to your business and reputation – retaining counsel and strategists who can assist you in crafting a swift, thorough and extremely wellcoordinated response is essential.
Whatever the cause of the crisis in question – a high-profile lawsuit, serious accident, government investigation, product recall, data breach, transportation crash, insider criminal conduct or another type of serious challenge – call on Holland & Knight’s Risk and Crisis Management Team to help you take steps to prepare for, respond to and emerge from the situation in the strongest possible position.
A TRUSTED ADVISOR
Holland & Knight has decades of experience in guiding U.S. and multinational companies in nearly every industry during some of their toughest challenges, especially when clients are in the crosshairs of civil and criminal liability, public criticism, government scrutiny, and potential debarment or exclusion from government programs.
OUR EXTENSIVE SERVICES INCLUDE:
ASTUTE CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS
Our seasoned communication and media strategists can lead or assist you in tailoring effective messaging, identifying and preparing experts for testimony, handling interaction with high-profile media and determining how to best manage social and other media.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We work vigorously to resolve crisis-related disputes without protracted litigation, but mount an aggressive and strategic domestic or international courtroom defense when it cannot be avoided.
CRISIS PREVENTION
We can assist you in adopting risk management measures, from drafting corporate emergency response programs and initiating preemptive compliance audits to ensuring that insurance policies provide adequate coverage.
EXPERIENCE THAT COUNTS
Members of our team have decades of government and private sector experience that has given them real-world insight into the vast range of challenges encountered by our clients. We know how to effectively apply our knowledge to provide immediate assistance with your crisis.
RISK AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAM QUICK FACTS
Data Privacy Testing
through our highly sophisticated in-house lab detects weaknesses in data security and recommends steps to help prevent cyberattacks
Our Team Includes
former members of Congress, the FBI, SEC, USDHS and NTSB, along with chief privacy/ compliance officers and more
We Wrote the Book on corporate compliance: our lawyers developed, edit and update the Practising Law Institute’s Corporate Compliance Answer Book
The team also has a lengthy track record in representing high-profile individuals who face government and regulatory investigations and inquiries, as well as white collar defense and high-stakes litigation.
THE HOLLAND & KNIGHT COMMITMENT
Collaboration across practices and offices, along with highly focused management of matters and cases, enables us to deliver seamless and efficient support, regardless of location.
DYNAMIC INDUSTRY SUPPORT
We fully engage all resources within the Firm to provide seasoned, creative and timely service to all types of clients, including:
OUR COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH EMPLOYS THREE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS:
QUICK ASSESSMENT
The Holland & Knight Risk and Crisis Management Team promptly determines the parameters of the challenges facing our clients.
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
We then create and employ integrated legal and communication strategies designed to mitigate liability, avoid adverse government action, protect our clients’ brand and reputation, advocate on their behalf, and preserve employee, investor and customer confidence.
MAINTENANCE OF OPERATIONS
Throughout the entire process, we give our clients the breathing room necessary to stay focused on managing all their business operations.
