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.
Much rehearsal went into Rebekah Wade’s debut Hugh Cudlipp lecture, and it seems to have paid off. The “flame-haired” editor of The Sun even impressed Roy Greenslade, who nevertheless rightly corrects her attack on the likes of Mr Justice Eady and their supposedly unilateral creation of a privacy law (when one, as Professor Greenslade points out, already exists).
What next for Wade? Commanding of presence, calm under pressure and now, evidently, polished in public performance, she has been at the helm of The Sun for five years. Before that she was editor of the News of the World for three. Avowedly a red top woman, a move away from News International to a competitor title is difficult to imagine. Will she move into the upper echelons of NI’s management, or, just possibly, might she fancy politics? After all, perhaps the most striking thing about her lecture was how much she believed in campaigning. Might so accomplished a bout of public speaking inspire her to move away from journalism?
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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