Orla Trant

Orla specialises in reputation management, complex litigation, and crisis response. Qualified in Ireland, she has built a reputation for delivering strategic, results-driven advice in high-value and high-profile disputes involving media, defamation, data protection, and privacy issues.

With a strong background in commercial litigation, Orla combines deep legal expertise with practical insight to help clients protect their interests and reputations in the most challenging and high-pressure situations. She has acted for public bodies, multinational corporations, high-profile individuals, and members of royal families, often in cases attracting significant media, political, and public attention.

Notable experience before joining Slateford includes:

• Defending a public body in the largest class-action-style litigation in Irish history, involving an unprecedented number of plaintiffs and potential liability for the Irish State, in proceedings that were highly politically sensitive and subject to intense media scrutiny.

   

• Acting for a corporate client in relation to a high-profile and controversial RTÉ Investigates programme aired by the national broadcaster, which made serious criminal allegations and generated widespread national attention and public debate.

   

• Acting for members of a royal family, an international hotel group, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in relation to complex multi-jurisdictional online defamation proceedings.

   

• Defending multiple corporate clients against alleged breaches of employee data protection and privacy rights.