Why Is Your Law Firm Obsessed with Fried Chicken When it Serves Tacos?
Nation’s Restaurant News wrote yesterday about Taco Bell jumping on the nationwide “fried chicken craze,” by adding a new product to its menu –...
Your Firm’s Role in Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Media Coverage
Diversity and inclusion is a timely topic in the legal industry and in the media.
In an often-cited 2016 article in the Atlantic, Adrienne...
The Real Reason Partners Leave Law Firms
This interesting article written by Roy Strom for Bloomberg Big Law Business this month points to some provocative suggestions from law firm leaders as...
Setting Ground Rules for a Reporter Interviews
Most PR people know about setting ground rules for a reporter interview, but most attorneys probably don’t.
The vast majority of the time,...
What to do When You’re Not Happy With the Reporting
All PR people have been in this situation: You work hard to pitch a good story or set up a good interview,...
Why the Turtle Never Wins the Race
There are many times when your law firm is competing to tell the same big story for a shared client. And when...
Target media outlets that target your clients
Big does not always mean best in many industries. That includes the media. While not all outlets are equal, don’t ignore ones...
When to Politely Decline a Media Request
The old cliché about publicity is that any kind, even bad publicity, is a good thing. Like many old clichés, this one...
Making the Transition from Media Hack to Law Firm Stooge
We see the notices almost daily about a reporter leaving the news business and moving to the (more lucrative) in-house communications positions.
Just...
Facts are boring. Stories are Compelling.
The human mind is constructed for telling and listening to stories. It’s just how our brains work. We are hard-wired in that...
