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Event · KARV Insights · May 7, 2025

KARV Hosts the Crisis & Litigation Communicators Alliance Annual Conference

KARV hosted the CLCA Annual Conference in New York, convening crisis and legal communications leaders from three continents with keynote Jack Devine of The Arkin Group.

KARV hosted the Crisis & Litigation Communicators Alliance (CLCA) Annual Conference in New York, convening specialist crisis and legal communications firms from three continents for candid conversations on the evolving geopolitical landscape and the practice of reputation work in high-stakes disputes.

Jack Devine, founder and chairman of The Arkin Group and a three-decade CIA veteran, delivered the keynote, arguing that fear is the ingredient that keeps autocratic rulers in power and predicting the conditions were in place for an eventual Russia-Ukraine ceasefire. Shareholders from Greenberg Traurig walked attendees through the intricacies of the U.S. legal system, and outgoing CLCA chair Martin Jenewein and incoming chair Nicolai Frederik Bonnen Rossen framed the group’s continued work as litigation communications becomes a growing necessity in disputes increasingly decided outside the courts.

Read the full write-up as published in O’Dwyer’s.