This week I appeared on an IBA panel as part of their virtual conference. The discussion centred around what the legal sector could learn from other industries. As it's so timely, I wondered whether there are lessons that law firms can...
In the first of our guest blogs by local journalists, Darren Slade, Group Business Editor at the Southern Daily Echo, Daily Echo Bournemouth, Dorset Echo, advises on the dos and don'ts when pitching a story. The emails are in full flow...
Co-authored by Melissa Davis, CEO, MD Communications and Chris Scott, Senior Partner, Slateford. Now, more than ever, reputation and crisis dominate the global headlines. Here, in the UK, Johnny Depp is now facing a career on the cusp of disaster after...
This week we hosted six illustrious speakers at our reputation webinar. Up for discussion was how to protect your brand during turbulent times, looking at the UK government's and legal sector's reputation, press interviews that went right and wrong,...
We are just 10 long months on from prime minister Boris Johnson's election victory. Fast forward to now and a glance at the headlines and comment pieces in even the Conservative press right now does not make for pretty reading....
Do you have a therapist? I do. I am proud of myself that I do. That I can have 50 minutes to myself. To talk about myself. My pain. So I can be my best self. Covid-19 means I have...
In January four journalist friends joined me for a panel discussion with a live audience. Yesterday, just as in January, 100 contacts from the legal world got, for a change, to ask the press questions. The world, though, is very different...
As businesses of all sizes navigate through the challenging times caused by COVID-19, it’s important to ensure your crisis communications plan is up to scratch to deal with the impact the coronavirus may have on your company’s reputation. Crisis communications means...
Veganism has become an increasingly popular movement over the past few years, and clearly where there’s tofu, there’s gold, with £740m sales of meat-free food in 2018. The latest brand to try to tempt the green market (which has grown fourfold...
A great aspect of an evening with friends is swapping stories – hearing things you wouldn’t if you hadn’t met up. And so it was last Thursday, when four journalists – The Independent’s Sean O’Grady, The Lawyer’s Matt Byrne, technology...
