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Filing Action can Harm Reputation

SOURCE

National Post

AUTHOR

Jim Middlemiss

DATE

June 18, 2008

Christine Carron, senior partner and member of the Recall and Crisis Management team, is quoted in the Legal Post talking about the causes and effects of crisis litigation.

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Welcome to the world of high-stakes litigation, where a company's reputation can be tested with the mere filing of a court document. It's not just lawsuits, however, that put companies on the spot. Everything from a product recall to workplace accidents and executive malfeasance expose businesses to reputational risks and, possible lawsuits, or even police and regulatory scrutiny.

Factor in such new technologies as the Web and hungry media that operate globally on a 24/7 basis, and companies are more exposed now than ever before to crisis litigation, lawyers say..

Christine Carron, a lawyer at Ogilvy Renault, said "what's driving crisis litigation is the conversion of technology and globalization."

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