Essential Insights for Representing Celebrity Clients

When representing a celebrity client, knowing how to interact with the media can be as crucial as the battle in the courtroom. Whether the celebrity is the story or the story makes the attorney or attorney’s client a celebrity, or high profile, this course will provide information on how to protect, defend, and promote clients in every way they will expect.

Attendees of this program will gain insights and approaches that will help attorneys get a favorable outcome inside and outside the courtroom for celebrity clients, with a substantial focus on engaging the media reporting on the case. It will also make them better prepared for all kinds of scenarios. Even if the attendee doesn’t typically get a celebrity client and might not even be looking for one, that doesn’t mean there won’t be a scenario where a case somehow becomes a big story and a lot of media reach. This will help attorneys be ready.

This course is not just for attorneys looking to represent celebrities or already doing so, but any attorney wanting to understand the media better and know how to effectively interact with them. Examples include criminal defense and civil rights attorneys, entertainment attorneys, personal injury, family law, and intellectual property.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn tools and insights that will better enable attorneys to interact with reporters in ways that yield the best outcome
• How to leverage the media covering your trial, including social media, and become more sensitive to the bold and subtle ways that media coverage, including social media, can impact a case or a trial
• Identify ways that high profile and especially celebrity clients expect their legal teams to pay more attention to issues involving media and the public’s perception of a case or trial
• Analyze journalists’ goals, methods, lingo, etc. to work more effectively with the media
• Evaluate how having a celebrity client can and should influence an attorney’s strategy for disposing the case publicly or privately