People | Jo Sanders
Jo is a Solicitor in the Litigation Practice.
She advises on a wide range of general civil litigation matters. She specialises in all aspects of reputation management for corporate and individual clients, including libel, privacy, brand protection, misuse of confidential information and complaints to media industry regulators such as Ofcom and the Information Commissioner. She also has experience in contract disputes and judicial review claims against Government bodies and regulatory authorities.
She has written widely on media law including articles for The Guardian and The Independent, and is a columnist for Profile, the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Jo previously worked as a news journalist, and later as a media relations advisor for the public relations firm Quentin Bell Organisation before qualifying as a Solicitor. She has a BA (Hons) from the University of York. She trained at Olswang, qualifying in 2003 into its media litigation team, where she practised for three years. After practising in media litigation with a specialist human rights firm, she joined Harbottle & Lewis LLP in August 2007.
"Jo Sanders 'really comes up with solutions and is plainly superb in her dealings with clients,' sources say." Chambers and Partners, 2009
