At the apex of the nation’s professional fixers, is there ever a lack of demand for services rendered by lawyer Rebekah Giles? She and a handful of others (including Melbourne’s Leon Zwier) are on speed dial from corporates, celebs and corporate celebs who need reputation help, or a rapid defamation notice drafted.

Take Taylor Auerbach, the steak-and-cocaine TV producer who went nuclear on the Seven network and rapist Bruce Lehrmann at a key moment in the latter’s defamation trial last year. Barrister Sue Chrysanthou was already representing former Ten presenter Lisa Wilkinson in her defence against Lehrmann, so it fell to Giles to front Justice Michael Lee on behalf of Auerbach.