
Hannah’s practice focuses on risk and crisis management and compliance services for companies (including nonprofits), political entities, and individuals. With substantial experience in comprehensive risk and crisis management across a range of business and individual matters, she brings a well-rounded understanding of risk and employs the necessary skills to address each matter through the lens of the client’s unique needs and concerns.
Hannah’s experience includes a broad spectrum of risk and crisis counsel, from business and political operations to individual high stakes family and criminal matters. Her strategy focuses on providing client-focused counsel and tailored mitigation strategies to enhance client resilience and stability. From reputational crises and data breaches to employment disputes and compliance concerns, Hannah excels at guiding clients through complex legal, operational, and financial challenges by balancing risks and opportunities while focusing on core client priorities. Her approach helps entities across a variety of industries build a position for long-term success by anticipating and addressing emerging challenges, targeting issues most critical to client success, and navigating rapidly changing business and political environments.
In her time providing counsel to a range of companies, political organizations, and individuals, Hannah has advised political entities on compliance issues including FARA and FCPA; provided counsel on high stakes defamation claims; assisted survivors of sexual crimes maintaining privacy and securing justice; counseled clients in a range of custody, child support, and divorce matters, including high-profile separations; and advised not-for-profits on formation, governance, and compliance matters. Her pro bono work has focused on family matters and supporting survivors of abuse.
Hannah Cole
Partner
Bar Admissions & Certifications:
District of Columbia
Maine
New York
CIPP/US
Education:
The George Washington University
Law School, J.D.Senior Articles Editor, George Washington Journal of Energy
and Environmental Law
University of Maine, B.A., summa
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships:
District of Columbia Bar
IAPP
Maine State Bar Association