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  • Hospital death issue
  • Product Manufacturer deals with China lead issue
  • West coast colleges prep for crisis response
2007
  • Chemical company fire
  • University preps for possible future bad news
  • Senior exec prep for Italy speech
  • TV Cable company dispute
  • University threatened by student/faculty disputes
  • Canadian company client security questioned
  • Hospital vs clinic dispute
  • Food company employee goes to court
  • Restaurant chain tainted by e-coli outbreak
  • TV cable company technical snafu
  • CFO presentation troubles to be corrected
  • Large regional accounting firm linked unfairly to corrupt official
  • Pharmaceutical company rolling out public health campaign
  • Huge real estate holder to sell holdings in single city
  • National company deals with embezzlement
  • Manufacturer sues well-known company
  • University faces publicized lawsuit
  • Global company shuts plants and lays off 1000's
  • National company faces indictment of high official
  • College deals with violence attracting international attention
  • National company counterattacks union activity
  • Hospital dispute with health insurance company
  • College encounters challenging publicity over faculty member
  • Physician copes with suspended medical license
  • Global company prepares to explain new research on major product
2006
  • National company faces indictment of high official
  • Global company has product problem
  • College faces race discrimination charge
  • Federal veterans get crisis presentation
  • Assisted living center faces resident "uprising"
  • Chemical company rep crisis training
  • Bank CEO coaching for presentations
  • USDA reps get crisis presentation
  • Bank replaces CEO amidst financial difficulties
  • Firm faces price gouging allegations
  • Crisis drill at very high-profile non-profit
  • Execs of large accounting firm get crisis presentation
  • Prep executive for presentation
  • Non-profit with embezzlement
  • Company with FDA investigation
  • Company with layoff
  • Pharmaceutical sales reps needing product training
  • Company preparing for buyout by giant corporation
  • Pharmaceutical physician going on radio show
  • Upcoming community college presidens crisis training
  • Bank closes the only branch in a small town
  • Federal CFO's get crisis presentation
  • Rape at assisted living facility in Florida
  • Cable company public conflict with tv station
  • Layoff of 200+ employees in NY state
  • Young presidents' group gets crisis presentation
  • Food contamination case
  • Embezzlement at company
  • Plant closing and laying off 200+ employees
  • Possible medical error at Texas hospital
2005
  • Company threatened by stockholder
  • Nonprofit conducts crisis drill involving explosion and hazardous waste and injuries to children and staff
  • Plant closing in NJ
  • College facing potential blackmail matter
  • Company crisis drill involving mock tornado and related chemical spill
  • Plant closing in GA
  • Company faces lawsuit with reputation threatening implications
  • Hospital on medical care controversy in MD
  • NGO deals with defamatory talk radio comments
  • NGO dismisses president and related issues
  • Pharmaceutical company preps for HIV community contact
  • Mental health organization faces troublesome public issue
  • Company with labor confrontation
  • Nursing home has potentially explosive case with client relative
  • Company preps for potential lawsuit on controversial public project
  • Medical center has controversial insurance negotiation
  • Company faces immigration issues getting nasty press coverage
  • Physician spokespersson prepares for possible crisis interviews
  • Company files for bankruptcy
  • County government minimizing controversy of new survey
  • Company with internal communications issues on bankruptcy
  • Company faces sensitive issue involving huge client
  • Company contemplating threat of violence
  • Company layoffs 200+ persons
  • International company resolving local environmental issue
2004
  • Famous former NFL quarterback to speak about national product
  • Company recovering from botched internal reorganizaion
  • Pharmaceutical official set to meet national media
  • Education institution faces controversial audit
  • Historic NFL running back to speak about national product
  • CEO to speak on quarterly report presentations to analysts
  • Prepare lawyer to explain controversial new product in NY
  • Prepare reknowned former NFL quarterback to speak about new furniture line
  • Company obtains plant expansion incentives from gov't
  • Company closes popular restaurant after fire
  • Federal raid on company offices
  • Product tampering case
  • National company with potential boycott
  • University with controversy over guest speaker
  • Accidental death at plant
  • University creating speakers' bureau
  • Community college with classroom controversy
  • Police chief in Today show story
  • Pharmaceutical researchers at national conference
  • Company facing possible federal indictment
2003
  • Crisis drill for chemical company
  • Telephone media training of docs nationwide for drug rollout
  • Public policy violation controversy
  • Controversial employee dismissal
  • Chemical environmental impact concerns
  • Smuggling of illegal aliens
  • Replacement of company president
  • Preparation for potential union protest
  • Layoff by manufacturer
  • Molestation case at hospital
  • Statewide layoffs by nonprofit
  • Quadruple killing partly involving school system
  • Nurse drug theft at hospital
  • Oil company mishandles employee firing
2002
  • Hospital physician license suspended
  • NY celebrities prepare to explain new FDA-approved use of drug
  • Company explains relocation to another state
  • Company informs internal audiences of coming merger
  • Company prepares to announce plant closing
  • Researchers prepare to meet press at International AIDS conference
  • Company board ousts 3 top executives including CEO
  • News coverage of "child abuser" employee
  • News coverage of possible student-abuse by teacher
  • Potential product contamination case
  • Potential racism charge against national firm
  • Pharmaceutical HIV research presentation
2001
  • International firm prepares for possible $20 million product recall (later determined not be necessary)
  • Teenager dies in ER following possible medical errors
  • Legal judgment against 2 lawfirms
  • Puerto Rico plant closing
  • Multiple domestic plant closings
  • PTA embezzlement
  • Stem cell research announcement
  • Fatal shooting on national firm property in LA
  • Local American Red Cross response to post 9/11 problems
  • Food firm employee fakes hepatitis case
  • School systems regularly attacked by newspaper columnist
  • $1.5 million dollar bank embezzlement
  • Product of national firm attacked by TV newsmagazine
  • Hospital sued by two doctors in one week
  • Large tech company sues another company and employees for trademark theft
  • Former employee stealing clients from investment company
2000
  • National withdrawal of controversial drug
  • Closing of plant in one state and layoff of hundreds in another
  • Embezzlement of public agency
  • Electrocution of employee of national company
  • Sex between school coach and under age student
  • College grade-changing flap
  • Bank embezzlement by director
  • Maryland hospital facing physician complaints about poor medical operations
  • School system publicly attacked by white supremacist group
  • Landfill operation attempting to reverse 10 years of bad reputation
  • Private school faces coach sex charges
  • National company preparing culture experts to deal with reporters nationwide in a marketing campaign
  • NC surgeon appears on 20/20 concerning controversial surgical technique
  • CEO conducting IPO road show in conjunction with taking company public
  • Communications company in public dispute over fees
1999
  • Chemical-related company facing potential press questions
  • City Symphony flap over firing of long-time employees
  • University controversy over freedom of press and religion on campus
  • Children’s home deals with aftermath of child’s death in its custody
  • NC-based international company’s Y2K team prepares to meet the public and press
  • Chicago-based firm resolves groundwater contamination problem in NC
  • Chicago-based firm prepares to meet new EPA requirements for 22 plants
  • National consumer company deals with unfavorable news about cockroaches at one of its stores
  • Major medical clinic prepares public comments concerning inflammatory lawsuit
1998
  • Winston-Salem’s first joint biotechnology venture begins involving Wake Forest and NC State Universities and RTP venture capitalists
  • Community college faces crisis over a course teaching that “slaves were happy during the civil war”
  • School system manages crisis concerning improper relations between coaches and students
  • Company fends off attack by Environmental Defense Fund
  • Company deals with disastrous fire that wipes out buildings in downtown Winston-Salem
  • Company heads off poor relations with two national clients over secret research with third client
  • Orlando-based community college faces arrests of faculty for charges of padding enrollment
  • NC-based firm announces plant closings in SC and NM
  • NC-based construction firm sues major hospital owner
  • NC-based firm manages problems with illegal aliens
  • NC-based HMO prepares to answer potential Department of Insurance Audit deficiencies
  • NC-based international company prepares for large-scale environmental problem (which fortunately turned out to be unfounded at the last minute)
  • Florida hospital manages media coverage of excessively slow emergency room and the arrest of the hospital president for speeding/resisting arrest
1997
  • For 18 months NC polyurethane foam manufacturer deals with severe federal and state regulatory challenge. (Hunton & Williams and I collaborated)
  • Large southeastern accounting firm manages embezzlement of non-profit agency
1996
  • Media trained all regional presidents for large NC-based bank
1995
  • NC university faces allegations and lawsuit alleging that two professors molested a student
     
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