Our Experience

Issue and Crisis Preparedness

Our team has worked in many sectors over the years. Below is a collection of these engagements:

Corporate Engagements
  • Shareholder activism/advocacy 
  • Culture modifications/adjustments
  • Corporate benchmarking - peers
  • Corporate downsizing- outsourcing
  • Plant closings/community impacts
  • Investor relations challenges 
  • Regulatory issues 
  • Product liability litigation *
  • Promoting Diversity
  • International trade disputes
  • Corporate sustainability survey responses
  • Executive criminal investigation and prosecution impacts/recovery and restoration of reputation 
  • Accounting and corporate financial reporting 

 

* - indicates litigation support engagements retained by general counsel or law firm in anticipation of litigation, as litigation commenced and during trial periods.

Technology Engagements
  • Internet and privacy rights
  • Telecommunications reform 
  • Government spectrum allocation
  • Government procurement policies
Health Care Engagements
  •  Regulation of pharmaceuticals 
  •  Malpractice insurance and litigation 
  • Health care and FDA reform legislation
  • Pharmaceutical approval and reimbursement
  • Childhood immunization issues
  • Durable medical equipment/device reimbursement/ recalls/other issues
  • Biomedical and AIDS drug research
  • Conversion of managed care plans/to private ownership
  • Pharma recalls & issues during product launches 
  • Biotechnology regulation/challenges
  • Blood supply safety issues/global
Crisis Preparedness Engagements
  • Enterprise-wide crisis preparedness programs
  • Crisis preparedness programs for individual business units
  • Risk comparison and assessment
  • Emergency response drills
  • Crisis analysis and planning
  • Plant crisis tests/drills/simulations
Financial Services Engagements
  • Challenges to depository lenders - USA and abroad
  • CRA bank compliance issues/crisis situations 
  • Discriminatory bank lending practices 
Environmental Engagements
  • Climage Change
  • Greenhouse gas emissions inventory (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
  • Chemical spill regulatory/litigation 
  • Superfund sites/nuclear waste disposal and cleanup 
  • Oil spill aftermath/restoration
  • Toxic use reduction/elimination
  • Genetically engineered pesticides
  • Chlorine – human health effects
  • Economic value of ecological disasters
  • Mining litigation/remediation 
  • New standards for drinking water and groundwater contamination
  • Chemical plant community relations 
  • Pesticide residues in food/food safety 
  • Cement kiln and incinerator construction/siting
  • Preserved wood controversy
  • Product life cycles/stewardship
  • Military weapons disposal
Safety Engagements
  • Auto accident/reconstruction
  • Maritime safety
  • Product defect litigation 
  • Aircraft accident investigations 
  • Food product tampering/contamination 
  • Child safety education
  • Anti-terrorism exercises
  • Asbestos contamination 
  • Food safety issues/GMO challenges
  • Plant explosions/fires
  • September 11, 2001 – airline client response
  • Cruise ship safety issues