Reputation Management Lawyer
Serving Clients in California, New York, Florida & Nationally
Your online reputation should be important to you. Most people will Google your name before doing business with you or engaging with you socially. Any negative information can, of course, damage your business and personal relationships. Posting false and disparaging information is unlawful. Should you be victimized by such behavior, we are prepared to take action on your behalf to protect your reputation.
We have also assisted clients in developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy to ensure that positive and neutral blog posts and articles about them rank highly in online search results.
In addition, we have staff experts in search engine optimization, blogging, link building, and other areas of online reputation management.
Bloom Fudali represents clients in reputation management matters involving defamation, online attacks, and false accusations by individuals, media outlets, and institutions. Founder Lisa Bloom has spent over 30 years handling cases where public perception and legal strategy collide. Our attorneys are licensed in California, New York, and Florida, and we pursue reputation claims nationwide. If someone is destroying your name with lies, contact us for a confidential consultation.
Why Choose Bloom Fudali for Reputation Management?
We’ve Won Defamation Cases Against Powerful Defendants
Lisa Bloom represented supermodel Janice Dickinson when Bill Cosby’s representatives called her a liar on national television. Dickinson had come forward with assault allegations. Cosby’s team responded by attacking her credibility publicly. We filed a defamation lawsuit and fought for years. We won.
Our firm has also filed lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kanye West, and the Alexander Brothers. We represented all 11 of our Jeffrey Epstein victim clients successfully. Lisa graduated from Yale Law School, has practiced since the early 1990s, and has been named a Super Lawyer every year since 2015.
Results for Clients
Bloom Fudali has recovered millions of dollars in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, civil rights violations, and defamation. Our $11 million verdict and $8.4 million jury award came against defendants who thought their money and fame made them untouchable.
We Understand How Media Works
Lisa appears on CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC as a legal analyst. She knows how reporters pick stories, how narratives harden, and how to break through when the coverage is wrong. That matters in reputation cases. A courtroom victory three years from now won’t undo damage happening today.
We’ve held press conferences that changed how stories were covered. Our media appearances demonstrate three decades of shaping public narratives while pursuing legal claims. The two strategies work together or they fail separately.
Contingency Fee Representation
Many reputation cases are handled on contingency. We get paid when you get paid. If we don’t recover compensation, you owe no attorney’s fees.
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“If you have Lisa Bloom as your attorney, you will have a tireless advocate for you by your side. If you need the services she offers, hire her. She’s the best.” — Jill Harth
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Types of Reputation Management Cases We Handle
Lies travel fast. A single post reaches thousands of people before lunch. A news article lives online forever, showing up every time someone searches your name. The damage compounds daily while you figure out what to do about it.
- Defamation by Media Outlets. Reporters make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes destroy people. A source lies, the journalist doesn’t verify, and suddenly you’re the subject of a story that isn’t true. News organizations have lawyers and insurance, and they’ll fight hard to avoid paying. But when they publish false statements of fact without adequate verification, they’re liable, and we know how to prove it.
- Defamation by Individuals. Your former business partner tells investors you committed fraud. Your ex tells mutual friends you were abusive. A competitor posts fake reviews claiming your product injured their child. These aren’t opinions protected by the First Amendment. They’re lies, and the people who spread them can be sued for the damage they cause.
- Online Attacks. Anonymous accounts, fake review campaigns, and coordinated harassment across multiple platforms have become standard tactics for people trying to destroy someone’s reputation. The internet lets anyone with a grudge reach millions of people instantly. Section 230 protects the platforms, but it doesn’t protect the individuals posting defamatory content. We work with digital forensics experts to identify anonymous attackers and pursue them directly.
- False Accusations at Work. Someone files a fabricated harassment complaint. The company investigates, gets it wrong, and terminates you. Now you’re unemployable in your field because every background check turns up the termination. We represent people wrongly accused in employment contexts who lost their careers over lies.
- High-Profile Reputation Crises You wake up to find your name trending for something you didn’t do. Reporters are calling. Your employer is panicking. Your family is terrified. These high-profile cases require immediate action on legal and media fronts simultaneously, and we’ve handled them before.
- Business Defamation A competitor claims your software has a security vulnerability it doesn’t have. A disgruntled former vendor tells your biggest customer you don’t pay your bills. False statements about companies cause real financial damage, and trade libel and business disparagement claims exist precisely for these situations.
Legal Requirements for Defamation Claims
Free speech has limits. The First Amendment protects opinions, insults, and statements so exaggerated nobody could take them seriously. It doesn’t protect false statements of fact that destroy someone’s reputation.
What You Have to Prove
Four elements make a defamation case. First, the defendant said something false about you, and the statement has to be factual rather than opinion. Calling someone a “jerk” isn’t defamation. Saying someone “embezzled $50,000” is a factual claim that’s provably true or false. Second, they communicated it to at least one other person. Third, the statement was defamatory, meaning it would make reasonable people think less of you. Fourth, you suffered actual harm as a result.
The Actual Malice Standard
New York Times v. Sullivan changed defamation law in 1964. Public figures and public officials now have to prove “actual malice,” which means the defendant knew the statement was false or recklessly disregarded whether it was true. This standard is difficult to meet. It’s not impossible. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press tracks cases where plaintiffs have overcome it, and we’ve done it ourselves.
Private figures face an easier standard. They typically only need to show negligence, meaning the defendant failed to exercise reasonable care in determining whether the statement was true before publishing it.
Filing Deadlines
Defamation claims have short statutes of limitations that courts enforce strictly. California gives you one year from publication under California Code of Civil Procedure § 340. New York imposes the same one-year deadline under CPLR § 215. Florida allows two years per Florida Statute § 95.11. Miss the deadline by a single day and your claim is gone forever.
Anti-SLAPP Motions
California’s anti-SLAPP statute under Code of Civil Procedure § 425.16 allows defendants to file special motions to dismiss defamation claims early in the case. Plaintiffs have to demonstrate a probability of prevailing just to keep their lawsuit alive. This procedural hurdle exists to weed out frivolous cases quickly, but it also means you need strong evidence and experienced counsel before filing anything.
What Damages Are Recoverable in Reputation Management Cases?
Defamation ruins careers, ends relationships, and destroys businesses. The law attempts to make victims whole through several categories of damages.
Economic Damages are losses that have specific dollar amounts attached to them. We work with forensic accountants to document what you’ve lost and project what you’ll continue to lose if your reputation isn’t restored. A surgeon who can no longer practice has lost decades of future income. A consultant whose client base evaporated has calculable damages stretching years into the future.
Presumed Damages acknowledge obvious harm regardless of whether the victim can document specific financial losses. Some lies are so inherently harmful that courts presume damage without requiring detailed proof. Falsely accusing someone of committing a crime falls into this category. So does claiming someone has a loathsome disease, alleging sexual misconduct, or asserting that a professional is incompetent in their field. These categories are called “defamation per se.”
Emotional Distress accounts for suffering. The humiliation of having colleagues believe false accusations. The isolation when longtime friends pull away. The constant anxiety of knowing that anyone who searches your name will find lies. These injuries warrant compensation even when they can’t be calculated from invoices and pay stubs.
Punitive Damages punish defendants who knew they were lying, or who published accusations without bothering to check whether they were true. These awards punish malicious conduct and deter others from similar behavior. A media outlet that ran a false story to generate traffic, knowing it would destroy someone’s career, should pay more than just the victim’s lost wages.
Injunctive Relief compensates for past harm, but sometimes you need the lies to stop. Courts can order defamatory content removed, require corrections to be published, and prohibit defendants from repeating their false statements. In online defamation cases especially, getting the content taken down matters as much as recovering damages for what it already cost you.
Contact Bloom Fudali
Building a reputation takes years of work. Destroying one takes a single viral post, a reckless news article, or a determined liar with access to social media. The longer false statements circulate online, the more people encounter them and the harder the damage becomes to undo.
We offer confidential consultations for reputation management matters. Not every situation justifies litigation, and we’ll tell you honestly whether your case has the strength to succeed. When it does, we have the experience, the resources, and the media savvy to fight effectively on every front.
If false statements are damaging your reputation, contact us today. We handle cases nationwide.