News

So the UK has avoided a triple dip recession for the moment. Hurrah! Thank the lord for that as we won’t have Robert Peston’s nasal wailings of more impending doom disturbing us as we sip our mugs of Horlicks tonight. Now, it’s not that I don’t listen...

02 April, 2013

Meeting with a legal firm this week about the possibility of running a PR campaign there was only one objective in the mind of the senior partner I met. “We want to be in the local paper,” he said. “We want to be in there as...

28 March, 2013

Twitter has been a liberation and a revolution for PR. Used correctly it can protect and enhance the image and push out wide scale publicity faster to an audience than it takes to boil a kettle. It has allowed us to instantly hear the views from...

18 March, 2013

When I was a news editor on a daily paper Wednesday’s were hell. Thursdays had the biggest paper of the week and we never had enough adverts for these pages, which we affectionately knew as Serengeti’s, because they were huge hostile expanses for us in...

08 March, 2013

There is a terminology that Public Relations companies use called crisis management PR. You probably already know what it is, but just in case you don’t it’s a short way of saying how do you deal with the media when there’s a negative story circulating about...

27 February, 2013

It may be a long goodbye, but as sure as night follows day news that several law firms under the QualitySolicitors mantle have opted to become alternative business structures, the end is nigh for the legal dinosaurs of the high street. It may be sad from...

26 February, 2013

What has horse meat in a lasagne got in common with the legal profession? Although it sounds like the start to a joke, it is anything but and out of the scandal overtaking the news at the moment there is an important and comforting message for...

14 February, 2013

We are weeks away from the biggest change in the provision for legal services in 70 years and yet the public seem blissfully unaware. From the start of April legal aid will no longer be available for most divorce, financial and private law children cases, such...

07 February, 2013

It’s that time again when almost everyone is half a stone heavier from litres of liquor and mountains of mince pies. No doubt most of the festive stodge is now consumed, but you can bet well into 2013 there will still be reminders of your gorging...

04 January, 2013

I lost faith with life in the media’s news agenda  a few years ago, deciding to leave my life as a news editor behind. It wasn’t that journalism on a newspaper was not rewarding, but the longer I worked in the news media I felt the...

14 December, 2012