Miller & Martin PLLC announced the formation of a Crisis Management Practice at the firm to serve the needs of businesses and organizations throughout all of its markets, according to Jim Haley, Chairman.
The new practice, the first of its kind in Chattanooga, will involve 13 Miller & Martin attorneys, including Don Aho, Roger Dickson, Crews Townsend and Haley in Chattanooga, as well as Danny Griffin in Atlanta. They will focus on crisis management from preventative planningto management of actual crises.
Miller & Martin member Zac Greene in Chattanooga is the practice group leader.
In announcing the news, Mr. Haley said, “A business crisis is best managed before it ever occurs. Our new Crisis Management Practice Group leverages the firm's deep experience in advising clients with respect to business operations, government enforcement, and dispute resolution to offer our clients a multi-disciplinary approach to avoiding, managing and recovering from unexpected business interruptions.”
In creating this new practice, Miller & Martin is including Atlanta-based Jackson Spalding, a marketing communications firm with a specialty in crisis management, to add public relations and media relations resources for its clients’ crisis management needs.
“A big part of managing a crisis when it occurs is maintaining strong communications with a business’s diverse audiences to ensure thataccurate information is shared in a timely manner,” Greene stated. “We are pleased to have Jackson Spalding as part of our crisis management team.”