James F. Haggerty is an attorney, writer and communications consultant based in New York. Jim is CEO of PRCG | Haggerty LLC, an internationally known public relations firm specializing in financial and professional services, litigation and crisis matters and other key areas. He is also Chair of PRCG | Sports, PRCG's sports and marketing brand, and is the President of Reputation Advisors International, an association of senior communications professionals in 16 cities worldwide.In 2023, Jim was named by Business Insider as one of “18 top public-relations experts CEOs scramble to hire in a crisis.” He has also been recognized by PR News as one of "50 Game Changers of PR," while The Holmes Reports noted that Jim "...literally wrote the book on litigation PR." The prestigious international directory Chambers & Partners has called Jim “a powerhouse” of PR and communications, and he has been ranked as one of the top legal communications consultants in the United States in every year Chambers has compiled a ranking.Jim's first book, "In The Court of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications (Hart + Harvest Press, 2022)," now in its third edition, has been called “… the perfect handbook for this age…” by Financial Times, and is considered the landmark treatise in the field. Jim also wrote "Chief Crisis Officer: Structure and Leadership for Effective Communications Response (Hart + Harvest paperback edition, 2023)," which was the top communications hardcover on Amazon when it was publishined, and has been positively featured in the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Fortune.Jim is also a practicing attorney. Among his cases, he 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.