sentences:  Negative publicity about a litigant can cause damage to an individual's reputation that a courtroom win years later may not salvage.Thus, parties to cases, whether civil or criminal, cannot ignore the impact of negative publicity on public opinion (Reber, Gower, & Robinson, 2006).Given the often complex matters at stake in litigation, practitioners need to digest and simplify these to ensure media and public interest in the story, without diluting any of the meaning in legal documents (Maltin, 2018).