Associate (2-3 PQE) - Reputation Protection

The role

Mishcon de Reya is seeking a 2-3 PQE Associate for their Reputation Protection team in London. This role focuses on media litigation and advising clients on issues such as defamation, privacy, and harassment within the Litigation and Media & Entertainment practice areas.

What you'll do

• Deal with a varied but exacting client base, quickly winning their trust and confidence and building meaningful relationships
• Advise on potential claims in defamation, privacy, confidentiality, harassment and data protection
• Manage pre-action engagement, litigation (including emergency injunction applications) and regulatory action
• Handle media crisis management, including responding to media enquiries and threats
• Address online publications, including identifying publishers and seeking the removal of objectionable content
• Prepare and submit complaints to Regulators, including IPSO, Ofcom, ASA, ICO and the Charity Commission
• Support clients out of hours and at weekends on occasion, providing urgent round-the-clock advice
• Negotiate with the media or other interest groups
• Experience addressing campaigns
• Supervise trainees and/or more junior members of the team
• Maintain consistently high standards of financial matter planning and file management
• Think innovatively in terms of legal solutions, the delivery of legal services, and by adopting new technologies
• Take on work from other teams across the Private Department, such as Private Commercial Litigation and Art Law

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