PR

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

At a business conference this week I was asked a question I’ve been asked many a time. Just what is good writing? The most important rule is keep it interesting for the other person. In PR and Marketing the purpose of writing is to provide clear persuasive...

14 December, 2012

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