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Two Cases for Positive Legal PR?
November 12, 2008
The opening line of what is the second most popular story on today’s New York Times website says it all: “You know things are bad when even lawyers are getting laid off.” The piece goes on to recount the adverse effect of the global economic downturn (aka, recession) on various law firms across America, and it makes for a tale of woe, with sundry lawyers losing their jobs. If there is a positive legal PR spin to be put on this, Blade would like to hear it.
Meanwhile, a San Francisco lawyer has an implausible name. We know this thanks to RollOnFriday, which recently alerted the world to the existence of Jamon Bollock. Does he need some positive legal PR, too? Blade suspects not. He appears eminently capable and not remotely a man in need of spin.
Imagine, though, if he had married Stephanie Wank Kofman, senior litigation counsel at Sony America. And if she had taken his surname. Feminism aside, no PR advisor would say that was a good idea.
The picture, courtesy of dcflamenco, is of a Flamenco dancer whose disdainful looks were matched by her comment on the idea of there ever being a lawyer called Stephanie Wank Bollock. “It’s b*******,” she said, before disappearing in a spin.
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From the inside of the maze, ethically outwards
February 9, 2012Curious times in the media; strange days at The Times.
Would ‘Dacre Cards‘ – the system of licensing journalists proposed by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre – have prevented the embarrassment now palpable at the Times over the NightJack story?
Times editor James Harding’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry seemed heartfelt and contrite, albeit that the paper’s former long-serving and much-respected lawyer, Alastair Brett, seems to have been, er, rather dropped in it. Clearly, mistakes were made with regard to NightJack by young reporter Patrick Foster who, once he had hacked into NightJack’s account and thus discovered his identity, then embarked on a quest to expose it via legitimate methods. This, as Inquiry counsel Robert Jay QC put it, was “rather like working from the inside of the maze out”.
But had Foster been licensed via a Dacre Card, would this unsavoury episode in the Times’s history have been avoided?
We suspect not. A raft of laws were in existence at precisely the time when many News of the World journalists seemed to believe that they were entitled to hack any phone they liked. Those laws forbade them from doing so, and yet made no difference. Aside from the obvious objection to them – that they will squeeze out freelancers and citizen journalists – Dacre Cards would simply amount to something to circumvent.
What is really required is an ethical shake-up, from top to bottom. Society generally – not just journalists – needs a sense that some things are just plain wrong.
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Supreme Court on Twitter
February 6, 2012Something remarkable happened today. Yes, the Supreme Court launched its Twitter feed. It even has a Twitter policy, one of caveats, disclaimers and little by way of illumination but regardless: who would have thought that the successor body to the House of Lords would stoop to engage with the world of tweets, hashtags and retweets?
We look forward to the day when court business will be conducted via Twitter. Meantime, check out this link for an excellent blog on the Supreme Court.
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Not so right said Fred
February 2, 2012
So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.
Now you are just Fred.
Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.
The Forfeiture Committee did for you.
No one had heard of it before,
But Dave said it had to act, and it did.
Trouble is that no one knows what to think.
Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,
Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?
We don’t know.
Do you?
By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.
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