Here at Swordplay, we relish the end of the working week as much as the next man. But this weekend idleness will not be our fate. Instead, we are undertaking a trial run for the forthcoming 3-Day Novel Contest. This, “the world’s most notorious literary marathon”, has been going since 1977 and attracts scribes from [...]
Swordplay’s denizens work in PR. We work with journalists on a daily basis and know that bombarding them with irrelevant press releases or pushy follow up calls does no one any favours. But according to our sometime scribe, Alex Wade, there’s an awful lot of bad PR out there. Read on, as he confronts EU [...]
Lawyer jokes – you’ve gotta love ‘em. Here, as Jojo contemplates a lightbulb (courtesy of Doll Doll), are some of the best. 1. Lawyers and Lightbulbs. How many lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb? How many can you afford? 2. Lawyers and Used Car Salesmen. What are lawyers for? They make used car [...]
Legal Blog Watch brings us news of a Newark lawyer who allegedly solicited work from a rape victim by leaving a leaflet on her windscreen. The ethics, or absence of ethics, behind such an act are presently before New Jersey’s Committee on Attorney Advertising. Swordplay sincerely hopes that this dire variant on ambulance chasing does [...]
Blade receives an email from an old friend. It says: “I’ve been thinking about a change of career for ages and now seems as good a time as any. I’ve got a place at The College of Law to do a GDL with a view to then going on to a BVC. Am I insane? [...]
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).