Winning communications campaigns for history-making litigation.

RebuttalPR has a proven track record counseling plaintiffs involved in litigation and investigations spanning local and state courts, federal district and appeals courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and regulatory agencies. Our approach — research and analysis, informed by deep experience working with media on high-profile litigation — has helped clients obtain justice in the most adversarial situations.

We strive to know the facts and law of your case as well as you do, allowing us to create unique communications campaigns anchored by compelling narratives that resonate with your key audiences. And importantly, we speak the language and understand the nuances and intricacies of operating in the legal space, where public relations must be handled with the utmost care and sophistication. The following are select highlights of our experience, and we would be glad to provide references and details of these communications campaigns upon request.

 

Mass torts / Class Actions

  • Regularly retained by plaintiff leadership / steering committees to manage communications around multidistrict litigation and class actions that draw public attention and/or scrutiny.

  • Communications campaigns have involved litigation with verdicts and settlements totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.

PRODUCT LIABILITY

  • Numerous drugs and medical devices — from filing of initial lawsuits, MDL coordination, jury verdicts, U.S. Supreme Court review, and settlements.

  • Approval of contentious settlements involving illegally polluting vehicles, receiving widespread positive news coverage and 99 percent support from class members who received billions of dollars in recovery.

  • Litigation and class settlements with multiple auto manufacturers regarding deadly parts defect, totaling billions of dollars.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

  • Largest retail data breach cases in history on behalf of community banks; successfully fought efforts by electronic payments industry to extinguish claims and helped achieve favorable class-wide settlements.

  • Overdraft fee case against major national bank that sought to defeat class action via forced arbitration provision.

TOXIC TORTS

  • Media and thought leadership campaign in support of largest settlement ever involving nitrate groundwater pollution.

  • Advocacy efforts to reform maritime laws in aftermath of BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Transportation

  • Spearheaded communications efforts — domestically and internationally — in support of litigation against industry giants in aviation, rail, auto and cruising.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

  • Cases against multiple universities accused of harboring physicians who sexually abused patients and students — from initial filings through settlement approvals.

  • Legislative campaigns to advance child abuse statute of limitations reform, in conjunction with communications effort on cases against dioceses in New York and New Jersey after passage of the Child Victims Act.

  • Gymnasts in litigation against USA Gymnastics and Larry Nassar.

SPORTS

  • Devised award-winning communications strategy for the litigation and settlement of concussion-related claims brought by former players against the NFL, transforming the case into an issue that came to define the game of football.

TERRORISM

  • Cases against corporations and foreign governments accused of aiding and abetting acts of terrorism domestically and internationally.

BANKRUPTCY / TORT CLAIMANTS

  • Communications and advocacy campaigns related to bankruptcies where solvent, non-debtor corporate defendants seek to extinguish tort claims via bankruptcy system

  • Media management in support of creditors’ committees representing tort claimants

Congressional & Regulatory

  • Deep experience in Washington and politics for when litigation intersects with regulatory and Congressional oversight.