Peter J. Mancusi

Principal, Peter Mancusi & Associates

Peter Mancusi is a lawyer, crisis management counselor, and former veteran reporter and editor with extensive experience helping companies, organizations and individuals avoid or mitigate reputational damage due to events that are, or may become, the focus of intense public scrutiny.

For more than 15 years, Peter led the issues and crisis management practice in the Boston office of Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s largest communications firms, advising a wide range of clients — in sectors including health care, higher education, private schools, biotech, technology, financial services, the arts, and philanthropy.

Among the many matters he’s handled are state and federal probes; whistle-blower cases; corporate litigation; CEO, senior leadership and employee issues; product recalls, SEC inquiries; sexual misconduct allegations; environmental problems; social media misinformation; and newspaper investigations .

In 2022, Peter launched his own practice. He remains affiliated with Weber Shandwick as a senior outside consultant.

Peter regularly collaborates with lawyers on behalf of their clients and also advises law firms to help them navigate their own reputational issues. He also conducts audits designed to assist clients in identifying vulnerabilities that carry reputational threats — and develops crisis communications response plans to ensure companies and organizations have the processes in place to effectively respond to reputational matters.

Drawing on his journalism background, Peter has worked closely with many companies and their senior leaders to develop messaging and narratives, frame and tell their stories to the media, become thought leaders, and establish relationships with reporters and editors. And he has conducted media trainings in Boston, New England, and around the country to help executives give effective interviews and avoid pitfalls in talking to media and other audiences.

Peter was a staff member of The Boston Globe for more than 20 years. Early during his career at the paper, he worked on the award-winning Spotlight Team, after which he served as the Globe’s legal affairs correspondent, covering local and national legal issues.

Later he became an editor and held a number of important posts. He worked as local political editor, helping supervise presidential campaign coverage, then served as city editor, overseeing the paper’s local report. As business editor, he directed a major expansion of coverage, including launches of biotech, technology and innovation sections.

As a lawyer, Peter worked for nearly five years as a litigator at the Globe’s law firm, Bingham Dana, focusing on media law. He is a member of the Massachusetts bar and also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court.

Peter is an honors graduate of Northeastern University, where he is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Journalism School, and received his law degree from Boston College Law School. He was also a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University.