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LAW
In short, here’s what we’re about –
We assist varieties of “traditional” clients with public relations plans and media
campaigns; we provide litigation support (i.e. legal and lawsuit assistance) and communications support for clients facing investigations or court cases; we provide strategic advisory and communications support to law firms; we offer full-scale support services to clients facing immediate / publicly visible / existential crises; and we have a particular interest and expertise in the rapidly growing civilian space industry, where we have a natural client base directly due to the backgrounds of some of our most treasured colleagues.
What we do is not at all unusual for cities like Washington, DC and London, where we primarily operate, or for that matter, New York, LA, Paris, Brussels or Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. The specific communications and strategic advisory services industry, of which we are a recognized part, is growing rapidly in these places. This works particularly well for Blue Highway thanks to the previous career and life experiences of the remarkable figures who have chosen to join us as we build out.
CULTURE
But we differ, in a rather big way, from anyone else who does what we do.
All of the services we list above, and so many more that we’re not so anxious to divulge openly just yet, are being made available by Blue Highway to the vast world of the arts in ways that have never been previously contemplated. And when we say “arts,” we mean actual creators – not necessarily rights holders, as therein may lie the ultimate problem: proper compensation to the creator of a work that is generating income for someone else.
Think of it this way: You’re a recording artist, a songwriter, an author, a composer, a screenwriter, an actor, a visual artist, or any other color of creator, who has watched from the sidelines as well-heeled individuals and large companies avail themselves of legal and media-driven reparative services that yield results, through litigation, through media, through pressure campaigns, or through other means that firms like ours can devise. Yet, you’ve not thought of such capabilities as being available to you, and years have dragged by without any hope of assistance for the sort of injustices you have faced.
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ABOUT US
Blue Highway Advisory is a one-of-a-kind boutique services firm with bases in the U.S. and U.K.
We specialize in providing unmatched Tier One media plans and access; multi-level, cross-community advocacy; and structural and senior-level strategic counsel for high-stakes litigation and crisis matters.
Our expertise lies in the following distinct categories:
Creators' rights: We have a proven track record in offering litigation and public affairs support, legal referrals, reputation enhancement and recovery, and hard-nosed mass media campaigns to assist composers, recording artists, filmmakers, visual artists, and writers/authors who have been aggrieved, short-changed, un- or under-compensated, or have had any other sort of contractual arrangement negated, ignored or violated.
Litigation communications support: We provide comprehensive assistance for civil and criminal cases, particularly those progressing through the US Federal system in DC, Northern Virginia, New York, and Los Angeles, as well as more contained, localized matters. Additionally, we deftly handle communications and strategic support for cross-Atlantic prosecutorial referrals to the U.S. from the U.K, and vice-versa.
The ‘NewSpace’ sector: We serve the global NewSpace industry, offering senior-level strategic, structural and media services to a rapidly expanding field that requires deep knowledge of defense, intelligence and government civilian space functions.
Whistleblower media support and legal referral services: We devise media plans and connect government and industry whistleblowers with appropriate legal resources.
Media advisory counsel for the legal sector: We offer counsel and guidance to select legal professionals and law firms regarding media and other vital communications-related matters.
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WHO WE ARE
The true strength of Blue Highway Advisory resides in the talented individuals who bring their knowledge, expertise and love-of-mission to BHA’s select range of services. Get acquainted here with the faces and personalities who are driving us forward, and discover the diverse backgrounds and the individual commitment that fuels our excellence in areas of law, media, artists’ rights, advocacy, and so much more.
OUR FOUNDER
IAN CHRISTOPHER MCCALEB
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Founder & Principal
Blue Highway Advisory
Our founder and principal, Ian Christopher McCaleb, is a sought-after media strategist, multiple award-wining strategic counselor and litigation communications and support specialist.
He has held senior editorial positions at renowned media organizations such as CNN and the Fox News Channel, as well as with a long-revered international news agency and a national newspaper chain. His beats as a reporter and correspondent included the Federal Justice system and Federal law enforcement, the Federal Court system, the U.S. military and intelligence services, foreign military conflicts, the U.S. Congress and multiple U.S. presidential elections.
He has worked as a senior strategist and practice chair at two major consulting firms, and at a Top 10 international law firm.
Further, he has extensive experience as a senior US government spokesman (Department of Justice, Criminal Division), intelligence community civilian operative…
…AND as a longtime music critic and writer, and musician.
Blue Highway Advisory marries his life's work in media, law and government with his greatest passions, the worlds of music, art, the printed word and cinema, to create an expanding agency that will form a formidable, protective shield for the rights of creators and artists. The work includes the most closed-fisted, relentless sort of media campaigns often devised for high-power corporate or government entities, but here applied to wide communities of aggrieved of undercompensated creators.
Mr. McCaleb planned and administered a comprehensive North American media campaign in relation to lengthy US Federal litigation over a beloved cult music motion picture, which played a key, concurrent role in all rights being returned to the control of the original creators.
Similarly, in 2023, he planned and executed an unremitting top-tier media campaign for a one-time hip hop luminary facing Federal trial on a variety of charges of unusual complexity. The campaign included the cover story in an international weekly business magazine, a full profile published by a long-influential music and culture monthly, drive-time scene-setters via a national radio network, a trial table-setter via a national business daily newspaper, and more prized placements and positive press throughout the trial process.
His sector work for clients has ranged from law, to tech, to heavy industry, healthcare, the international space industry and space law, defense, high net-worth individuals, musicians, artists, filmmakers, philanthropists and charities.
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