Social media lessons: Rebecca Long-Bailey socially distanced from Labour frontbench

Kevin Poulter, Partner at Freeths LLP, recently took part in our social media and reputation webinar. Here he discusses the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey after she retweeted an interview which Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said contained an 'anti-Semitic...


Legal sector says it isn’t prepared for increase in social media usage

Yesterday we brought together an illustrious panel on the topic of reputation and social media. Representing the journalist viewpoint were two leading journalists - Associate Editor of the Independent Sean O’Grady and the Law Society Gazette’s Commissioning and Features Editor Eduardo Reyes...


Social media during COVID-19

Working with a number of international contributors, we launched our white paper “Social media during COVID-19” last month. It’s been downloaded hundreds of times and to continue the conversation we are hosting a webinar on 17 June, which is almost...


Zoom Therapy

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...


Press and the pandemic

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...


Make your legal directories content count

As we continue to grapple with a global situation and an economy that we couldn’t have imagined six months ago, marketeers and business developers within the professional services sector have a key role to play. Events are being reimagined and redefined...


How to handle the media in a crisis

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...


Can your crisis plan stand up to the effects of Coronavirus?

Where is your crisis communications plan? It could be that it's in your head, because it's obvious to you what should be done and said when your business is disrupted. Maybe you think your business isn't 'big' enough or as...


What we can learn from Burger King’s latest PR error

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...


‘Targeting your story is like dressing for the occasion’

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...