Rachel Atkins

Spear’s Review

Rachel Atkins, a partner at Schillings, has a particular focus on mitigating reputation and privacy risks for entrepreneurs, corporates and private clients.

She tells Spear’s that she sees herself ‘as much of a problem solver as a lawyer.’ The picture she paints certainly requires that: ‘In today’s current climate, wealth and success are seen as crimes. Reputation and privacy are vital to any conversation about what it means to live in a connected, digital world, and the codes and rules that govern reputation and privacy are now being debated the world over,’ she says.

In one of her favourite briefs, Atkins was tasked with ensuring press and paparazzi didn’t catch wind of an ‘extravagant party’ thrown by an entrepreneur.