Crisis Management

How do you prepare for something you can’t predict? When a crisis strikes, acting swiftly with informed advice is the best way to mitigate damages and stop further harm from being done. 

Our Crisis Management Service Team is experienced in handling a broad range of critical crisis type scenarios in private, nonprofit and municipal contexts. From across a wide breadth of practice disciplines, we bring a deep bench of professionals who are poised to identify and employ strategies that can see a business through a range of disruptive and tragic events. 

We’ve helped local and national businesses both small and large in crisis situations such as:

• Governmental investigations or audits running the gambit from health care, employment, laboratory/pharmaceutical, environmental, tax, public safety, etc.
• Corporate governance, including owner/governance disputes and proxy fights
• Securities violations
• Theft or improper use of confidential business information, trade secrets and intellectual property
• Violations of non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality agreements
• Termination of key employees, including those charged with offenses unrelated to their employment
• Public health crises and Pennsylvania Department of Health and/or attorney general investigations
• Workplace investigations, e.g. #metoo; theft or fraud, other misconduct
• Defense of employers/businesses in class action litigation
• Whistleblower/employment issues
• Cyber incident response and regulatory privacy/security matters
• Human and animal food safety and adulteration assessment and response, including market withdrawals, product recalls and product liability
• Mediation/arbitration, review and evaluation of high stakes disputes