I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand, 1942 – present, American singer and actress.
Congratulations to Dennis Publishing supremo Felix Dennis for winning the Mark Boxer Award at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. The award is presented to an individual who, in the opinion of the BSME committee, has made an outstanding editorial contribution to British magazines. Swordplay also commends Danny Rogers of PR Week, who scooped the prize for weekly business and professional magazine – in a year that has seen the title produce a number of government exclusives that have been followed up by the nationals.
But with Dennis’s success, thoughts cannot but turn to fellow larger-than-life magazine (and newspaper) proprietor, Richard Desmond. Could the man who owns the Express titles and OK! one day take the award?
Dennis is pictured, centre, with fellow co-defendants in the notorious Oz trial Richard Neville and James Anderson. No wonder they look happy – they’d just been set free.
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke and Rohit Grover of Spada examine the importance of marketing and PR in a downturn. This article was originally published in Solicitors Journal, Practice Management Supplement, 28 April 2009, and has been reproduced by kind permission.
Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting. The white paper is available for download here.
Now available for download here is Spada’s latest white paper. Entitled ‘The Laity Bytes Back’, the paper looks at Web 2.0 and the professions.
In this paper, published in the International Journal of Business and Economics, David Brock, Tal Yaffe and Mark Dembovsky scrutinise large law firms, their strategies and measures of their effectiveness.
In this article, Gavin Ingham Brooke, MD of Spada, looks at how US law firms should approach hiring a UK PR agency. The piece is reproduced from Strategies – The Journal of Legal Marketing by kind permission of the Legal Marketing Association.
Towards 2012 – The New Legal Landscape
Spada’s white paper on the impact of the Legal Services act is now available to download here. The research recently featured on the front page of the Law Society Gazette.
Information Inflation: Can the Legal System Adapt?
George L. Paul, a partner in Lewis and Roca, LLP and Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, discuss the “new inflationary dynamic” of information in this article from the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. How do vast quantities of new writing forms challenge the legal profession, and how should lawyers adapt?
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