Jane Ashford-Thom

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Reputation Management

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Expertise

Jane is a reputation management lawyer. She has extensive experience advising high profile and high net worth individuals, businesses and charities on proactive reputation protection and crisis management.

Her work spans defamation, privacy, breach of confidence and harassment. It includes pre- and post-publication engagement with publishers, right to be forgotten requests, combating smear campaigns, and online platform regulation. She has particular technical expertise in data protection and AI law in the context of reputation management. She is experienced in managing complex crises, bringing composure and making sound judgments in high stakes situations.

Much of Jane’s work has a cross-border element, and she is experienced in coordinating strategies for international clients whose reputation, privacy and data issues span multiple jurisdictions.

Jane Advises

  • High profile individuals
  • High net worth individuals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Directors
  • Corporates
  • Charities

Experience Highlights

  • Advising a HNWI on combatting an anonymous online smear campaign across multiple jurisdictions, obtaining unmasking orders and bringing multiple claims
  • Acting for a high-profile individual in the entertainment industry in a defamation claim arising from a front-page feature
  • Acting for an individual in respect of the unlawful interception of her private communications by a former employer
  • Advising an entrepreneur on privacy rights arising from a regulatory investigation
  • Advising high-profile individuals on safeguarding the privacy of their children
  • Advising an NGO on the obligations of social media platforms following the Online Safety Act and Digital Services Act
  • Exercising clients’ right to be forgotten in respect of spent convictions
  • Acting for multiple claimants in phone hacking litigation

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Slateford, Counsel
  • Taylor Hampton Solicitors, Consultant Senior Associate
  • Schillings, Associate
  • Harbottle & Lewis, Associate
  • Wiggin, Trainee

Education

  • University of Cambridge (2008-2011)
  • BPP Law

Expertise

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Jane is a reputation management lawyer. She has extensive experience advising high profile and high net worth individuals, businesses and charities on proactive reputation protection and crisis management.

Her work spans defamation, privacy, breach of confidence and harassment. It includes pre- and post-publication engagement with publishers, right to be forgotten requests, combating smear campaigns, and online platform regulation. She has particular technical expertise in data protection and AI law in the context of reputation management. She is experienced in managing complex crises, bringing composure and making sound judgments in high stakes situations.

Much of Jane’s work has a cross-border element, and she is experienced in coordinating strategies for international clients whose reputation, privacy and data issues span multiple jurisdictions.

Jane Advises

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  • High profile individuals
  • High net worth individuals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Directors
  • Corporates
  • Charities

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising a HNWI on combatting an anonymous online smear campaign across multiple jurisdictions, obtaining unmasking orders and bringing multiple claims
  • Acting for a high-profile individual in the entertainment industry in a defamation claim arising from a front-page feature
  • Acting for an individual in respect of the unlawful interception of her private communications by a former employer
  • Advising an entrepreneur on privacy rights arising from a regulatory investigation
  • Advising high-profile individuals on safeguarding the privacy of their children
  • Advising an NGO on the obligations of social media platforms following the Online Safety Act and Digital Services Act
  • Exercising clients’ right to be forgotten in respect of spent convictions
  • Acting for multiple claimants in phone hacking litigation

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Slateford, Counsel
  • Taylor Hampton Solicitors, Consultant Senior Associate
  • Schillings, Associate
  • Harbottle & Lewis, Associate
  • Wiggin, Trainee

Education

  • University of Cambridge (2008-2011)
  • BPP Law