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CBS issues a subpoena to Cone Communications, looking for its contacts with journalists covering the takeover battle between the broadcaster and majority shareholder, National Amusements Inc.
Joele Frank is working with Barnes & Noble in the bookseller’s nasty squabble with former CEO Demos Parneros, who was fired in July after 15 months at the helm.
CBS is the object of a class action suit which claims that the drop in the network’s share price following revelations of alleged sexual behavior by CBS CEO Leslie Moonves is essentially a case of fraud on the part of the company.
Brunswick Group, Sitrick And Company, Ripp Media, Sard Verbinnen occupy the top rung of the ladder in Chambers and Partners’ debut rankings of PR firms doing legal and litigation support work.
The Legal Marketing Assn., which has more than 4,200 members and representatives in 90 percent of the biggest 200 law firms, is looking for a PR firm to help it become a more vocal advocate for the profession.
Kesha's legal team argues singer/rapper's PR materials are entitled to protection under attorney-client privilege.
Robert Mueller's 13-count indictment against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates claiming the duo generated millions of unreported income from Ukraine and hid the payments by laundering the cash, also includes a charge alleging FARA violations.
Dentons, international law firm, launches Nextlaw Global PA Network, to plug into synergy between legal and public affairs sectors.
A New York court decision on the Empire State's Shield Law puts the free flow of information to the press at risk, according to a report from The Dilenschneider Group.
Ripp Media is handling PR for Bill Cosby’s demand that charges against him by Andrea Constand be dismissed on the ground that the Montgomery County D.A.’s office reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby. (6 reader comments)
Oral Nicholas Hillary, who in September was acquitted in a high-profile murder case, is citing a PR firm for its role in taking his story to the press. (1 reader comment)
“Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing,” says a headline in the Aug. 8 New York Times, referring to both criminal and civil trials. We agree and it’s going on right under our nose.
MWWPR has served a summons on accounting firm Marcum LLP and managing partner Jeffrey Weiner seeking a declaratory judgement that engagement letters are void, illegal and unenforceable. Damages in excess $5 million are being sought.
Ripp Media is representing former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who has filed a high-profile sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.
AMP Agency, Boston, a full service marketing firm, has sued MWW Group, East Rutherford, N.J., and New York, seeking payment of $289,149 plus attorneys’ fees, court costs and pre-judgment interest.
Application of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act to websites is still being worked out by regulators and courts. Smart website operators, however, are putting accessibility on their website requirement checklists. (1 reader comment)
Hogan Lovells US LLP is representing Venezuela’s attorney general in a request filed with the Supreme Court regarding its ongoing case against oil company Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co.
A PR firm whose client is being disparaged by anonymous emails may find that a lawsuit is the only way to stop the disparagement. Anonymous disparagers have been found out, stopped, and sanctioned through the civil justice system.
The CAN-SPAM law, which regulates commercial emails, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits unsolicited fax ads, must be considered anytime a commercial message is sent out by email or fax.
PR reps of four of the biggest law firms, employing a total of 3,586 lawyers, will reap publicity for their firms Nov. 5 via a PRSA/NY program. The firms have pro bono practices and we have some candidates for them.
PRSA/New York, after panels that considered whether PR is “ethical” and ditto for healthcare PR, will hear from PR reps of four law firms Nov. 5 on how they promote a profession accused of becoming too powerful.
General Motors’ PR operation is hard at work following its CEO openly admitting the death and injury caused by its cars.
Sitrick and Company is mounting a PR play for Danielle Schreiber, the mother of a four-year-old-child at the center of a paternity suit by the actor Jason Patric that the New York Times calls "one of the highest-profile custody fights in the country."
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