James F. Haggerty

James F. Haggerty is an attorney, author, and leading communications and messaging consultant.

With more than thirty years of experience counseling corporate, nonprofit and individual clients, Jim and his firm, PRCG | Haggerty LLC (www.prcg.com), have been repeatedly ranked as among the top communications advisors in the United States by the prestigious Chambers & Partners international directory.

Jim's first book, IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, was initially published in 2003 by John Wiley & Sons and is considered the definitive look at the use of public relations in litigation and other legal disputes. IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION is now in its Third Edition, published in 2022 by Hart and Harvest Press. Financial Times called IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION "the perfect handbook for this age of show trials..." The book has also been positively features in The American Lawyer, New York Law Journal, the Boston Herald, and many other leading publications.

Haggerty's second book, CHIEF CRISIS OFFICER: STRUCTURE AND LEADERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS RESPONSE was published in a new paperback edition in 2022, with a new Preface on communications during COVID-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The hardcover edition of CHIEF CRISIS OFFICER was the top communications release on Amazon, and was featured in the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Fortune, among other media outlets.

In addition to his books, Jim has written for The New York Times, USA Today, The National Law Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur and Inc. magazine, among others. He was a columnist for American Lawyer’s Corporate Counsel

magazine from 2011 to 2015, where he was twice nominated for a Neal Award for Business Journalism — the only full-time public relations professional to ever be so honored.

In May, 2017, Jim was named one of the “50 People Who Changed PR” by PR News magazine for his “pioneering” work with communications during legal representation.

An attorney admitted in New York and Florida, Jim represented more than 3,000 victims of the Haitian cholera disaster in a lawsuit against the United Nations that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. He has also worked on First Amendment issues, false advertising cases and other matters.