There’s some good stuff over at The Lawyer on how the UK’s top firms have reconstituted themselves during the recession. Click here to note some interesting stats, and click here for something completely different: courtesy of the good folk at RollonFriday, we now know that at least one judge is so down with the kids [...]
Roy Greenslade sums up Lord Lester’s proposals for reform of the libel laws in this post. Lester, a Liberal Democrat peer, is drawing up a Defamation Reform Bill which would:
1. Reform contingency fee agreements (aka no-win no-fee deals), memorably described by David Hooper as “the ransom factor” in contemporary libel litigation given that the costs [...]
Swordplay has been keeping an eye on the emergence of branded content, a phenomenon which blurs conventional distinctions between advertising and entertainment and now boasts its very own Wikipedia page. That may not be conclusive evidence of its arrival, but expected changes to present restrictions on what has long been known as good old product [...]
The scene: early morning in an office in the inner sanctum of a major bank. Gathered at an antique oak table worth £7.2m are the bank’s CEO, its lawyer and PR executive.
CEO: Hurray! Common sense has prevailed. The Supreme Court proves that we rule supreme. We can charge what we like and there’s nothing anyone [...]
There’s some good stuff over at the Guardian today on that age-old question: what next for social media? We note, in particular, two views from a star-studded debate at Oxford’s Said Business School:
1. Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google, believes that Facebook will replace e-mail for the next generation; and
2. Biz Stone, the [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
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In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Edmund Burke, from the Preface to Brissot’s Address.