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The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have time to read reviews.
William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962, American writer.
A Happy Overlawyered Birthday
July 2, 2009
Overlawyered has just turned 10 years old. That makes it the world’s oldest law blog, according to Robert Ambrogi at Legal Blog Watch. We’re not arguing. Hats off to Walter Olson, who launched Overlawyered in the dim and distant pre-Facebook, sans Twitter days and made a success of it.
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The Pleasure and Sorrow of Being a Writer
July 2, 2009
What are we to make of Alain de Botton’s outraged response to a critic’s less than favourable review of his latest work, Pleasures and Sorrows of Work? Alex Wade provides an up close and personal guide to what’s in a writer’s mind.
‘Never read your reviews’ is an exhortation often sent a writer’s way by [...]
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Ice Cream, You Scream, The ASA Says No
July 1, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a newspaper advertising campaign for ice cream featuring a nun and a priest, thereby guaranteeing the ice cream manufacturer, Antonio Federici Gelato Italiano, vatloads of publicity.
The ad is pictured here, by way of giving Antonio Federici Gelato Italiano (remember them?) a bit more PR.
But should the ad (by Antonio [...]
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Is nothing sacred? With news that a lucky lady from ITV’s Who Wants to be a Millionaire? had her £10,000 cheque bounced, we fear the worst. The Sun has the story here.
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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. 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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