“Maclitigator just completed a four day jury trial (a.k.a. “in the Soup” as my friend Chuck might say) using the iPad as the primary means of getting information in front of the jury.”
These words form the opening of a post by an American lawyer who calls himself “Maclitigator”. Leaving aside the fact that [...]
Seasoned PRs might say that the following report, of Gordon Brown’s desperate efforts to apologise to a woman he met on the electioneering rounds in Rochdale, might conform to sound principles of crisis managemnet:
A mortified Mr Brown issued six apologies over the next six hours, including one by e-mail to Labour supporters for [...]
There are Latin maxims in the law, and there are the illustrations of Latin maxims in the law given from on high.
Of the former, we enjoy ex turpi causa non oritur actio, which, translated with reasonable accuracy, means “no cause of action is possible from a wrong act”.
Of the latter, we are particularly taken with [...]
What’s your candidate for Word of the Year 2010?
We ask following this post from Legal Blog Watch on the social media phenomenon of “oversharing”. Yes, this one does what it says on the tin. As defined by Webster’s New World Dictionary, which made “overshare” its Word of the Year for 2008, to overshare is a [...]
Our peripatetic and occasional scribe, Alex Wade, contacts us in a state of high anxiety. He is talking, a little feverishly, about Eastenders. We confess that we rarely, if ever, watch the popular BBC1 soap, but Wade insists that one of its storylines has, in creating a separate story of its own, brought to fruition [...]
Southampton FC score a PR own goal
Is Google Street View a good thing?
Skype: coming to a courtroom near you?
Released almost a year ago, Spada’s groundbreaking research report, British Professions Today, is available for free download
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn.
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud, 1930 – present, cricket player and commentator.