Legal PR

What We Do

PHA Media has a formidable reputation as the most expert PR agency best placed to provide crisis management to individuals or companies involved in high profile legal cases because:

• We provide a holistic solution; PHA has strong relationships with leading law firms and with the Press Complaints Commission, and we understand how to complement their activity. We have experience working as part of an integrated team advising clients before, during and after a legal case or dispute.
• We provide 24/7 around the clock support, including out of hours meetings and court attendance
• We have access to Editors at the highest level and the power to influence the tone and content of reporting, ensuring that our clients are represented fairly in the media. We work behind the scenes with the media and the press complaints commission where appropriate to ensure fair, balanced representation.
• We are experts in crisis management and help clients diffuse and turn around dangerous stories.
• We work with clients during and after the court proceedings to ensure that their reputation is preserved and bolstered both online and through traditional PR channels.
• We offer more than PR expertise and reputation management expertise as we are best equipped to provide media training to ensure handling of the media by the client is handled in the best possible light.

With Phil Hall a renowned industry specialist at the helm the legal PR team ensures the most effective PR expertise in this complicated arena whether you are involved in an injunction, super injunction, privacy matter, industrial or high profile divorce proceedings.

Phil Hall has served an unprecedented two terms on the press complaints commission both as a newspaper editor and as the industries magazine representative. His award winning career as a journalist has ensured him a seat at the media’s top table meaning he has access around the clock to editors and the movers and the decision makers in the media ensuring your case is given due attention whenever the situation arises. Phil is a sought after speaker on the subject of crisis and reputation management.

PHA Media have worked with many of the top lawyers as part of an integrated legal and PR team including:

• Carter Ruck
• Schillings
• Olswang
• Hamlins
• HB Law
• Edwin Coe
• Mischon de Reya
• M Law

Quotes from our clients

“I am an employment lawyer and I had the pleasure of working with Phil Hall and Stuart Skinner when managing the defense of a high profile discrimination claim. Our client and his immediate family experienced substantial press intrusion which was ameliorated as soon as we had instructed PHA Media. Phil and Stuart attended our offices out of hours to meet with our client and devise an appropriate strategy to alleviate the harassment being experienced. Phil and Stuart were responsive and effective and were able to deliver a solution which can only be achieved through the right contacts, experience and regular working relationships with the relevant journalists. I would not hesitate to recommend PHA Media and would caution any sceptics to not underestimate the results that can be achieved.”
Linky Trott, Partner at Edwin Coe, who worked with PHA Media on the Mark Lowe case

“We have an excellent working relationship with PHA Media and have recommended them to a great many of our clients as they always do such a professional PR job. They are a trusted journalist-driven PR company, are leading experts in reputation management and always deliver outstanding results.”
Nigel Tait, Partner at Carter-Ruck

“In the world of media law, disputes can be taken out of lawyers’ hands and carried into the public arena. M Law LLP are aware that sometimes clients require expert PR advice alongside legal services, and calling in a different professional perspective can make all the difference. We have recommended PHA Media to clients when they need reputation management in the eye of a PR storm. PHA Media are as adept at controlling such storms as they are at creating them. With experience ranging from the charitable sector to the world of showbiz, they have been a perfect fit for a range of our clients. We recognise PHA’s expertise in understanding both old and new media, and their ability to get the voice of the little guy heard in David-and-Goliath battles.”
Owen O’Rorke, Associate at M Law