[1][2] The firm was founded in 1984 by Keith Schilling and Nicholas Lom and focused largely on media law, libel, and privacy protection.

It was called by Index on Censorship "the scourge of many a Fleet Street editor" for obtaining anonymized gagging orders to protect celebrity clients' privacy.

[3] In the early 2010s, the firm began to move away from pure media and libel work towards reputation protection for a large corporate, non-celebrity clientele.

[11] Gideon Benaim and Matthew Himsworth worked for Schillings on Armstrong's libel actions,[12] including a 2004 defamation suit against The Sunday Times for referencing information in the book.

[21][22] In July 2013, Schillings acted for the author J. K. Rowling who brought proceedings in London's High Court against a lawyer who revealed that she had been writing under a pseudonym.

Rowling won her case for breach of confidence;[24] the lawyer's firm issued an apology and agreed to pay her legal costs in addition to making a "substantial" donation to The Soldier's Charity by way of damages.

In 2019, Schillings represented Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in a High Court claim against The Mail on Sunday over alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright, and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.

[31] Schillings represented Malaysian fugitive Jho Low, who was accused by US prosecutors of a money-laundering scheme connected to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.