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| Gloria Labbad |
Gloria Labbad, partner and senior counsel at FGS Global, has joined Heather Podesta’s Invariant as it beefs up its litigations unit.
She did a six-year stint as corporate counsel at Sard Verbinnen & Co., which was acquired by Finsbury Glover Hering in December 2021.
Earlier, Labbad practiced law at Dentons and McGuireWoods and served as a federal district court law clerk.
During her nearly two decade career, Labbad has handled crisis management, litigation PR, reputation building, corporate positioning and media relations matters.
She has worked with financial services, healthcare, insurance, real estate, retail, technology and manufacturing clients.
Labbad has a “proven ability to help clients navigate crises and legal challenges, providing communications counsel and strategy that protects reputation, maintains investor confidence and preserves employee morale,” said Podesta.
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Andrew Garson pled guilty in New York federal court on Nov. 1 to charges that he defrauded his former employers MWWPR and Catalyst PR of millions of dollars. He agreed to pay $3.8M in restitution and could be 
Chambers puts Reevemark, FGS Global, The Levinson Group, Trident DMG and Brunswick Group at the top of the heap for firms providing litigation PR and communications in its newly released rankings for 2023.
Reevemark strategic communications shop and Penta Group, which calls itself a “comprehensive stakeholder solutions firm," represented Dominion Voting Systems in its legal battle with Fox Corp and Fox News.
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