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Baretz+Brunelle launches a talent intelligence & analytics practice. Among the new practice’s offerings are bespoke marketing & communications efforts to re-brand laterals, transition full books of business and address growth and success; onboarding support, including client integration, internal communications and business development/cross-selling planning; and metrics-based assessment reports to maximize client development opportunities. The practice will be led by Howard Rosenberg, the co-founder of Decipher, a global investigative intelligence business, who will join the firm as a partner. “Law firms’ main assets are the individuals who walk in and out each day,” said Rosenberg. “I see a huge unserved need to assist law firms in identifying, onboarding, integrating, and growing the businesses of the right individuals.”
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Onclusive, which was formed in January with the acquisition and merger by Symphony Technology Group of Kantar’s Reputation Intelligence business, PRgloo and the legacy Onclusive, picks up US-based media monitoring platform Critical Mention. The company says the move enhances its global footprint and ability to offer US broadcast monitoring and media contacts capabilities to clients worldwide. All of Critical Mention’s team, which is predominantly located in offices in New York and India, is set to remain with the company. Critical Mention’s existing clients can still access their products and services as usual and will soon have access to the wider Onclusive offer.
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Redbird Communications Group, a strategic communications firm focused solely on the oil and gas industry, and the TEN|10 Group complete a strategic transition that will result in Redbird assuming the leadership and management of TEN|10’s oil and gas practice. TEN|10 will continue to provide communications services in the nonprofit and educational sectors. Current TEN|10 team members have begun working in collaboration with Redbird’s energy communications professionals. “While the company name may be different, the service will be the same. We look forward to growing new relationships and continuing to provide our clients with outstanding counsel,” said Redbird co-founder and principal Meggan Morrison.
Page launches the Polansky Future Leaders Fund, which was established through a gift from 2025 Page Hall of Fame inductee and former Weber Shandwick Global CEO Andy Polansky... Ruder Finn reintroduces its website, ruderfinn.com, which will now feature a large language model (LLM) as its primary user interface... Higher Plane Media is launched by former Sloane & Company CEO Darren Brandt.
Champion, which specializes in restaurant, franchise and consumer brands, opens a Miami office, adding to its operations in Dallas and Los Angeles... Violet PR, a Montclair, NJ-based firm that focuses on economic development, commercial real estate and place branding, opens a second office on Park Avenue South in New York... Inflection Point, a founder-led, senior growth systems partner for startups and growth-stage businesses, launches... PRSA announces the recipients of its inaugural Women of Impact Awards. Honorees honorees were recognized during the PRSA Women of Impact Summit & Awards at the Union League Club of Chicago.
FleishmanHillard is shuttering its 20-member Dublin office as Omnicom Public Relations reorganizes its global operations... Vested acquires Watermark, a D.C.-based public affairs and special situations firm.... Matter earns two Pinnacle Awards 2026 Marketing & Communications honors for its clients.
Quad/Graphics launches Direct, a Quad Agency to help marketers create, execute and measure direct marketing campaigns in one connected offering... InnoVision Marketing Group SVP/senior creative director Giselle Campos and SVP/general manager Alanna Markey are among the first-ever winners of the San Diego Business Journal’s Indispensables Awards, which recognizes professionals who make the greatest impact within their organizations and across the San Diego business community... Park Place Technologies, an IT infrastructure services firm that works with Feintuch Communications, releases the second episode of its “The Savvy CIO” podcast. 
Ripley PR is named a silver winner in the TITAN American Business Awards’ Outstanding PR Campaign category... Excellera, a corporate-advisory firm, came in at number one in deal count, as well as fourth in deal value, in Mergermarket’s list of top EMEA firms... Thunderly is telling the stories of military veterans who transferred the discipline, organization and leadership skills developed in service to their country into successful post-military careers as franchise business owners, as part of its year-long "American Dreamers: The Stories of Franchising" effort.
