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Reputation management for Australian lawyers
Australian specialists in addressing damaging court reporting, peer-review sites, defamatory commentary, and other online content affecting lawyers and law firms. Free assessment within one business day. Confidential, no obligation.
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M. Patel
Litigation Partner
M. Patel, Firm Profile
patel-legal.com.au
Bar Association Listing
lawsociety.com.au
Old case report (suppressed)
courtreports.example
Industry Publication Feature
lawyersweekly.com.au
Forum thread (suppressed)
forum.example
Why lawyers come to ORMA
The legal context, taken seriously
We work with barristers, solicitors, and partners across litigation, corporate, family, and criminal practices. Engagements respect your professional ethics obligations and confidentiality at every step.
Confidential engagements
No client matters disclosed. You decide what is shared, including coordination with your firm's risk and compliance team.
Defamation-pathway literate
Familiar with Australian defamation law, Press Council pathways, and platform takedown procedures.
Court-reporting aware
Familiar with how court reports, judgments, and case coverage surface online over time.
What we help with
If any of these sound familiar, we can help
Most practitioners come to us with several issues at once. We address them in parallel. The longer damaging content sits on page one of searches for your name or firm, the harder it is to shift.
Court reporting and case coverage
Old news coverage of proceedings, judgments, or settlements still ranking on branded searches for your name or firm.
Peer or client review sites
Reviews on legal-specific platforms or general sites containing defamatory claims, factual inaccuracies, or breaches of platform policy.
Defamatory client commentary
Posts on forums, blogs, or social media from disgruntled clients where defamation grounds exist under Australian law.
Old or damaging news coverage
Articles about historical proceedings, dismissed or settled matters, inaccurate reporting, or wire-syndicated coverage still ranking for your name years later.
Personal data on broker sites
Your home address, family details, or contact information appearing on people-search aggregators you never signed up for.
Competitor disinformation
False or misleading content about your firm or practice areas posted by competing firms or anonymous accounts.
How we pursue removal
From assessment to outcome
Every matter starts with a free assessment by our Australian team. Within one business day you have a clear view of the realistic options across removal and suppression pathways.
Free assessment
Send us the specific content. Within 24 hours an Australian specialist outlines the realistic options.
Tailored strategy
Built around the specific platforms, applicable grounds, and your professional context. Coordinated with your firm where relevant.
Action
Platform requests, legal pathways, publisher engagement, suppression. Several pathways worked in parallel.
Ongoing protection
Monitor for new content. Reinforce the positive footprint as your firm grows over time.
When removal isn't possible
Build the search presence that outranks the damage
Public court records, factual news coverage, and truthful peer commentary sometimes can't be removed. In those cases, search suppression is the path: accurate, authoritative content under your name that outranks the damaging results on the queries that surface them.
Popular questions
Questions lawyers ask
If your question isn't here, ask us during the free assessment.
Can you address negative client commentary on review or forum sites?
Sometimes. Reviews and forum posts can be addressed where they breach the platform's content policy, contain false statements of fact, or where defamation grounds exist under Australian law. The free 24-hour assessment looks at the specific content and outlines the realistic options. Where removal isn't viable, search suppression makes the content far less visible on branded queries for your name or firm.
What about court records and judgments appearing in search results?
Public court records can't be removed at the source. However, news coverage of those proceedings often can be addressed (especially where the matter was withdrawn, dismissed, or settled) and search visibility of public records can usually be reduced through suppression: a stronger search footprint of accurate, authoritative content under your name.
Will the engagement breach my professional ethics obligations?
We work within your professional ethics framework, not around it. The free assessment doesn't require you to disclose client matters or confidential information. For anything that touches your active matters, you decide what is shared with us, and we coordinate with your firm's risk and compliance team where appropriate.
Do you work alongside my partners and external counsel?
Yes. For defamation, breach of confidence, or other matters with legal grounds we coordinate with your firm's nominated counsel, including any panel lawyer appointed by your PI insurer. We don't provide legal advice ourselves; we work alongside lawyers where their input is essential to the takedown pathway.
How long do most engagements take?
Most engagements run 3 to 12 months depending on the platforms involved, whether legal pathways apply, and how entrenched the existing content is. The free assessment within one business day gives you a realistic timeline before you commit.
Can you help with media coverage of cases that were dismissed or settled?
Sometimes. Where coverage of a matter that was withdrawn, dismissed, or settled remains live and uncorrected, we approach the publisher with right-of-reply or update requests. Where editorial cooperation isn't forthcoming, suppression pushes the article off page one of searches for your name. Outcomes depend on the publisher, the specific facts, and applicable defamation law.
Related: defamation pathways, old news still ranking for your name, or read our step-by-step process.
Find out what's actually possible in your situation
Free, confidential, no obligation. Most assessments back within one business day.
Get Free ProposalOutcomes depend on the specific content, applicable jurisdiction, available evidence, and platform or search conditions.