Dionne is an Associate in the Disputes team at Simkins with experience across media and entertainment disputes and reputation protection. Her practice includes intellectual property, defamation, misuse of private information, data protection, harassment and general commercial litigation, including contractual claims and corporate disputes.

Dionne has acted in numerous High Court proceedings, including representing high-profile musicians to protect their copyright interests, advising companies and individuals within the Film & TV industry on their intellectual property and contractual rights, advising on fraud and breach of warranty claims relating to the sale of a music tech company, working with literary agents and publishers on copyright and breach of confidence claims, and obtaining urgent injunctions for misuse of confidential information.

In the reputation protection area, Dionne helps companies and high net worth individuals in relation to mainstream media and online publishers, both pre- and post-publication. Dionne has worked with clients in the music, film, sports, technology, private equity, and professional service industries to help protect their reputation.

Dionne graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours in Law. Prior to joining Simkins, she worked in an in-house litigation team for an investment company in New York.

Dionne was named as a recommended lawyer for ‘Media and Entertainment’ by Legal 500 in 2023 and described as having “a bright future ahead of her.”

Jonny is a strategic communications advisor specialising in crisis and litigation comms. He represents a variety of clients including HNW individuals, corporates and institutions during times of challenge and change.

Jonny is also a qualified solicitor having trained at Vardags, where he helped advise a wide range of clients involved in contentious reputational and privacy disputes. Prior to this, Jonny was at the press regulator IPSO. This role included handling issues arising from intrusive media enquiries from journalists and paparazzi, providing pre-publication advice journalists on their code of conduct, and managing press complaints. He was also involved in the ‘Phone Hacking’ litigation, while a paralegal at Atkins Thomson (now Thomson Heath) and undertook a long internship at the pressure group Hacked Off.

Jonny studied History at the University of Sussex, before completing his GDL at the University of Law and the LPC at BPP.

Katie is an Associate in Hamlins Media Disputes Department.

Katie is a media law specialist with over 11 years’ experience representing high profile clients in multi-jurisdictional disputes relating principally to defamation, privacy, harassment and data protection. She is also involved in phone hacking litigation against News Group Newspapers and MGN Limited. Past and present clients range from multinational corporations and leading business figures to international governments and heads of state, high profile politicians and celebrities.

She has significant expertise in online libel and harassment. She has acted both for and against online intermediaries and website operators and has been involved in several landmark judgments on intermediary liability, third party rights and dark advertising.

Katie also has extensive experience providing specialist pre & post publication advice to print, online and broadcast media and advising high profile international clients on reputation and crisis management matters across multiple jurisdictions.

Katie graduated from Queen’s University in 2012 before completing a Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies in 2016. Katie is qualified to practise in England & Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Libby is an aspiring lawyer, currently her final year of studying Spanish and Italian at the University of Bristol.

She has completed internships for Asserson Law Offices and Studio Legale Vallefuoco (Italian-speaking law firm in Rome) in the last two years.

In her spare time Libby is a professional DJ and also the Assistant Manager for the Great Britain U-18 Girls Football team for the European Maccabi Games 2024.

Molly-May is an Associate at Farrer & Co, where she advises on a broad range of reputation management and media issues, including privacy, defamation, contentious IP, and data protection. She also handles a wide variety of commercial disputes, with a particular interest in the theatre, television, film, hospitality and leisure sectors.

Molly-May joined Farrer & Co as a trainee in 2020, having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2019 with a first-class law degree, the Betty Wu Lee Prize in Law and the Helen Gladstone Prize for exceptional endeavour. Molly-May qualified and was admitted as a Solicitor in 2022.

Jess is an Associate at RPC, where she specialises in defending clients against defamation, privacy, media regulation and data protection claims and has acted on behalf of media organisations, publishers, individual journalists, social media companies, media insurers and other organisations based in the UK and overseas. She also has experience in providing pre-publication advice to print and online media.

Before joining RPC in September 2020, Jess graduated from the University of Exeter in 2016, where she studied English Literature, before completing the GDL and LPC at the University of Law. Jess qualified and was admitted as a Solicitor in 2022.

Robbie joined Matrix in October 2021 on the successful completion of his traineeship.

As a media lawyer, Robbie acts for both claimants and defendants across defamation, privacy, data protection and open justice matters. Recent work includes the appeal to the UK Supreme Court in Mueen-Uddin v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWCA Civ 1703; [2021] EWHC 3026 (QB). He acts as junior counsel in the Mobile Telephone Voicemail Interception Litigation (phone hacking).

Robbie’s wider practice focusses on public law and human rights; protest law; extradition; and actions against the police/public authorities, often with an emphasis on information rights and freedom of expression.

Robbie works as a night lawyer at a major broadsheet and for a national broadcaster. He is co-author of the chapter on the Right to be Forgotten in Online Publication Claims: A Practical Guide (2nd edn, forthcoming).

James has worked on a variety of reputation management issues relating to defamation, misuse of private information, data protection, blackmail and harassment on behalf of business figures, politicians, “influencers”, private individuals and companies. Much of James’ work involves complaints relating to social media platforms whether that be complaints to the platform itself or action against other platform users.

His media experience includes acting in pre-publication and post-publication matters in respect of local, national and international publications, broadcasts and press inquiries, often working alongside the client’s PR advisers.

James obtained his BA in History at the University of Nottingham before completing a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at BPP University.