Brown Rudnick LLP

Brand and Reputation Management

Partner

Charlotte Harris is co-chair of Brown Rudnick’s Brand & Reputation Management team. She has 25 years of experience representing high-net-worth individuals, celebrities, Members of Parliament, professional athletes, and corporations, adeptly navigating crisis situations both behind the scenes and in the public eye. Her clients are typically subject to intense media attention both in the U.K. and internationally. Issues her clients face include injunctions, defamation, privacy, and harassment, often under urgent circumstances. She frequently liaises with news organizations to remove intrusive photographs, property plans, confidential correspondence and incorrect facts.

Charlotte is ranked Band 1 by Chambers for Defamation/Reputation Management for High Net Worth Reputation Management and has also been named a leading reputation and privacy lawyer by Legal 500, Spear’s 500, and The Lawyer’s Hot 100.

Charlotte has appeared before various Parliamentary Select Committees, including the Home Affairs Select Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Privacy and Injunctions and has argued key media standard and privacy law issues as this law has developed substantially over the past two decades. Among other notable successes, Charlotte has represented many claimants in the phone hacking claims since 2007 and gave evidence before the Parliamentary Select Committee as part of the Leveson inquiry.

Client comments:

“Charlotte Harris is a superb lawyer in all areas of reputation management. She has detailed knowledge of defamation and privacy law, as well as data protection and related fields.” “Charlotte is outstanding in this field. She ascertains her client's interests and objectives, and works out how best to try to achieve those objectives. She is insightful and highly intelligent.” “Charlotte has consistently shown herself to fight as hard as she possibly can for her clients and get the best results.” “I regard Charlotte as the best of the best in reputation management.” “One of the most sought out privacy lawyers in the land.” “Charlotte is charismatic, fiercely proactive on behalf of clients and focuses on winning.” “Charlotte is an excellent, first-rate high net worth reputation management adviser at the top of her game. She is absolutely superb.” “She has an unswerving devotion to client service.” “She is a force of nature. She is an awesome opponent but a loyal and dedicated ally.” “Truly exceptional” “A very shrewd and experienced litigator.” “Razor sharp.”

Charlotte is a regular speaker at industry events and has, amongst others, addressed King's College, The Cambridge Union, Oxford PPE Society, UCL, Queen Mary University of London and the Society of Editors. She is frequently approached for comment on privacy and reputational case law in the media.

England & Wales

College of Law, Legal Practice Course

University of East Anglia, B.A. (Hons), English and Drama