The most effective strategist you've never heard of.
If I'm ever the story, I've failed. You won't see my name in a deposition, a byline, or a headline. I work in the background — the work shows up in the outcome.
The lawyers won the case at Hopkins. I won the narrative. The offer was $50 million. The settlement was $190 million. That's not the beginning of a career. That's the middle of one.
"A corporate giant once sent someone to go through my trash. I opened the back door and said make sure you take it to the curb."
I'm the principal of Oliver & Ginger, and I've worked in plaintiff litigation communications for twenty-five years. Before that, I was a reporter at Dow Jones — I know what it takes to get a story placed, because I spent years deciding whether to place one. That's not a credential you can hire. It's a perspective you either have or you don't.
I built a plaintiff-side communications operation specifically to counter what the defense bar deploys against you: firms like Kirkland & Ellis on the legal side, and communications shops like FTI Consulting, Sitrick and Company, Brunswick Group, and TrailRunner International, that run sophisticated operations built to isolate your clients and control the story.
I break those machines.
They Built a Machine to Beat You. I Built the Thing That Beats It.
Billion-dollar companies don't just fight lawsuits — they retain sophisticated communications operations built to shape public perception before your complaint is ever filed. This is the apparatus routinely deployed against plaintiff attorneys in mass tort, MDL, class action, and catastrophic injury cases: firms like Kirkland & Ellis building the legal defense narrative, FTI Consulting running the war room, Sitrick and Company managing the public record, Brunswick Group handling the financial press, TrailRunner International moving the political and regulatory landscape.
I built a plaintiff-side operation specifically to counter what that apparatus does.
An Institution Knew. It Said Nothing. People Were Harmed.
The pattern holds across every matter I've worked: an institution knew, said nothing, and people were harmed until the narrative forced accountability. Hopkins is one. It isn't the only one.
See the full record →I Answer My Own Phone. That's the Whole Pitch.
I was once the junior person on a case — no idea what I was actually doing, sent in because someone senior had somewhere else to be. I remember exactly what that felt like from the other side. That's why no one under ten years touches your account here. You wouldn't accept a first-year associate running your case. I don't accept one running your narrative.
No pitch-and-ditch: I answer the phone because I run the agency — the person who sells you is the person doing the work. And I scale up and scale down with the matter, so you're never paying for bench you don't need.
You bring the law to the fight. They bring a war machine. Lawyers believe the case is won in the courtroom. Corporate defense firms know the case is won in the public square before the complaint is even filed. Every day you litigate without active narrative intelligence, you are fighting with one hand tied behind your back.
The Bench Force — Who Actually Executes the Narrative Architecture Work on Your File
I lead, execute, and personally start every single engagement from day one. You always have my direct line. However, when the sheer volume of an multi-district litigation (MDL) or massive coordinated proceeding demands scale, we scale quickly.
I maintain a vetted bench of counter-intelligence and media operators matched precisely to the matter, whether it demands specific expertise in aviation, toxic torts, environmental contamination, or mass product liability. We scale immediately to meet any corporate defense burn rate. Every single operator brought onto your matter is a veteran in high-stakes communications; absolutely no one with less than ten years of experience will touch your account.