Schillings-Reputation managers with a reputation problem?

Hmm, this is, I think, rather amusing. Those, um, impartial advisers acting as lawyers for Alisher Usmanov say on their site:

Using the law to protect reputations is our specialism.

Hmm. ( Some hyperbolic musings on my part )

ETA: liadnan in the comments here makes a very good, and informed point, from the perspective of a practicing barrister:

By and large the lawyer's (or at least the solicitor's -professional obligations are slightly different at the bar-) job is to advise -within the law- on possible courses of action which may achieve the client's wishes, and then, once the client has decided, carry out the chosen course, not to make decisions for their client based on their own political, social, or moral beliefs about what the law should be.

He's right, of course, the law firm itself can't be blamed specifically for acting on behalf of their client, but then, I've always known I'd make a terrible lawyer...