PR and reputation management

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Top tips to get a broadcast interview right

Our Founder and CEO Melissa Davis discusses the Prime Minister's robotic approach in recent media interviews and why she has a lot to learn and fast. Liz Truss's interviews. Is anyone else wondering if she skipped the media training chapter when preparing herself to become the Prime Minister? Today's spectacle was care of Sky...


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Criminal barristers deserve justice

It’s time to do all we can to support the Criminal Bar Association and every barrister who joins this strike action, our CEO and Founder Melissa Davis writes in her latest blog. One of the reasons I ended up in the legal sector was because of a barrister. We were in...


Womens football

Apparently there was a football match last night

Fresh from celebrating the win last night, our CEO Melissa Davis says we must now follow on from the European Championship win to make sure female footballers get their same opportunities as their male counterparts at all levels and ages. Football finally came home. On a brilliant July evening, at Wembley...


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A comedy of social media errors brought to you by the leadership campaign

The Conservative leadership campaign has offered an unintended buffet of mistakes and blunders to learn from, says CEO and Founder Melissa Davis. In the reputation stakes there's something for us all to learn as we live our lives through the lens of digital media.  As communicators, we’ve been watching this one closely, increasingly...


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Could my dancing ruin my reputation?

This was the question I asked myself repeatedly last Friday. It was this time last week that I was feeling more than a little bit fragile but also extremely energised because it had been our summer party held at Sexy Fish in Mayfair the night before. As someone who loves being in...


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Why media coverage will always be your most effective tactic for group claims

Our PR, Marketing and BD Director, David Standard, has worked with the media on some of the most significant group actions of the last 10 years. David discusses the role of media relations in collective actions and the importance of the client onboarding process. Group actions, multi-party actions, collective redress claims,...


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Why attacking ‘lefty lawyers’ is eroding the rule of law and why it must stop

Our CEO Melissa Davis discusses the latest attack by the government on the UK legal system. Sometimes, I can’t believe what I’m about to write. This is one of those days. Imagine a country where the two representative bodies for barristers and solicitors had to issue a joint statement urging the government...


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Partygate: at what point does lying become a scandal?

Fizzgate? Partygate? Call it what you want, but the latest revelations about the Prime Minister’s attendance at rule-breaking gatherings shine an unflattering light on those whose job it is to manage reputations at Number 10, writes our Founder and CEO, Melissa Davis. The last thing the Partygate saga needed as it...


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Is it a journalist’s job to protect your reputation? #wagathachristie

Depending on your view, it’s either the libel trial of the year – or just an awful sideshow between two millionaires arguing over who said what about something you don’t care about. But away from the lurid headlines and glamour of the #WagathaChristie libel trial, what can we deduce? Our Founder...


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The ‘20% off’ memo that hit the headlines

CEO Melissa Davis discusses why the real lesson from this awkward experience for Stephenson Harwood is that every internal memo is a press release in the making. It was another one of those ‘oh dear’ moments. Lots of law firms have issued guidance to their teams in recent months on working from...