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Month: February 2017

SIR ALAN PARKER

SIR ALAN PARKER

PR powerhouse Parker, who is friends with Gordon Brown and the Camerons, chairs the 850-strong private partnership and communications firm,…

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GEORGE THWAITES

GEORGE THWAITES

Having previously worked at the Mail on Sunday, where he broke a number of stories (one claiming to have unmasked…

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DAVID YELLAND

DAVID YELLAND

Yelland could be a modern Cato. ‘To anyone running a large organisation, or any person of influence, ask yourself one…

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DAVE KING

DAVE KING

Dave King digitalis While some still talk of social media (and even the internet) as a new phenomenon, woe betide…

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ED WILLIAMS

ED WILLIAMS

A former journalist and communications honcho at the BBC and Reuters, today Williams is a respected corporate counsellor, advising movers…

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PAUL BLANCHARD

PAUL BLANCHARD

Blanchard speaks to Spear’s having just flown in from the States, where he’s recently taken on several major clients, prompting…

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ANTHONY SIMON

ANTHONY SIMON

‘People see the world differently,’ says Simon of the ‘contextual shift’ in Western politics. It is a trend that called…

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MIKE BROOKES

MIKE BROOKES

‘Defamation is still alive and well,’ says Brookes, dispelling any notions of the initial doom and gloom that plagued claimant…

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GERRARD TYRRELL

GERRARD TYRRELL

A privacy and reputation lawyer whose own reputation stands ‘second to none’ according to peers, Tyrrell is known to represent…

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RICHARD ABBEY

RICHARD ABBEY

Abbey started his career as an accountant at EY in 1988, working on the firm’s renowned forensic fraud and investigations…

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MATT CARTER

MATT CARTER

‘We are a small, and almost hidden partner to many big companies,’ says Carter. ‘We don’t want to make the…

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MATTHEW FREUD

MATTHEW FREUD

There’s no sense of let-up for Freud, even as Brexit bites, the Chipping Norton Set exit stage right, and some…

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RAMONA MEHTA

RAMONA MEHTA

Mishcon’s straight-talking head of reputation protection is always vigilant on behalf of clients. One needs to stay ‘two steps’ ahead…

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AMY BRADBURY

Bradbury was drawn to the ‘dynamic nature’ of the reputation management world, where ‘speed is of the essence’, after a…

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EMMA WOOLLCOTT

EMMA WOOLLCOTT

When mired in vicious reputation crises, especially those emerging from the cloak of anonymity that the internet provides, ‘clients can’t…

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PAUL TWEED

For Tweed, it all started over a bun fight: ‘Two of the senior lawyers of their day [QCs] were accused…

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