How do I fight negative blogs?

blogs appear on 1st page when searching for my client's brand

[evan420]

Problem: a couple of bloggers with an axe to grind against my client's company are posting fabricated and false negative articles.

When the sales team tries to close deals, people are reluctant because of these negative blogs.

When searching on the company's name, the negative blogs show up in the first several pages.

Can I flag them to Google or combat them in some way? Client's site has a couple of their own blogs and a PR=5 (vs. 0 and 4 for the offending blogs).

Any advice would be very helpful, thanks!

[moltar]

Create 10 sites of your own, and optimize them to come up higher then those blogs.

[pageoneresults]

I think the best thing to do would be for the client to seek professional legal advice and then proceed from there.