Does Five Blocks coordinate with legal teams during a crisis?
Yes - regularly and closely. Crisis engagements almost always involve in-house and outside counsel, and we coordinate narrative, timing, and tactics with their legal strategy.
Legal coordination is the rule rather than the exception on crisis engagements. The reputation work and the legal work shape each other constantly: a defamation analysis affects what authoritative counter-content can say; a regulatory disclosure timeline affects when narrative work can begin; a litigation strategy affects what facts can be confirmed on the record. We work alongside in-house counsel and outside firms (often the major litigation and corporate firms that handle the legal side) to align narrative and timing with legal strategy, share factual research that helps both workstreams, and support legitimate legal escalation paths where the underlying content is genuinely actionable. The disciplined version of this coordination produces faster, cleaner outcomes than either workstream produces alone.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026
