Are you ready for a crisis? Even if you think you’ve done nothing controversial, serious allegations or a lawsuit leaked to the media can put you or on the defensive. It might not matter if you are innocent, the negative publicity along the way might ruin your reputation. In one example, Lumber Liquidators went to…
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Recently, Gene Marks wrote in Forbes about “Why The Apple Watch Debut Is Worse For Apple Than Glass Was For Google,” saying that sales are down and people haven’t found the need to use it. There’s something else about the Apple Watch that is troubling. Shortly after it debuted, the New York Times announced that it was
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Research from Gallup puts into question the credibility and ethical standards of lawyers. In one of their recent surveys, attorneys ranked just three positions above car salespeople in honesty/ethics. This demonstrates why it’s important for attorneys to manage their reputations so that people who look at them will positively differentiate them from the crowd. Here
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It seems like all the money in the world can’t buy good publicity. In Forbes, Agustino Fontevecchia did a round-up of infamous highlights from the lives of the Getty family in “The Great Getty Curse.” Paul Getty was at one time the richest man in the world, so it seems with that success would come
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When a company makes a mistake, they want public relations professionals to fix the problem. Unfortunately, sometimes mistakes can’t be fixed, even with the best pros on the planet. The Irish Times has an article about how the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is upset because one of its investments has gotten bad press. The organization owns a
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An attorney may have a law degree, credentials, and lots of CLE training, but it’s all not enough if the person makes unwise, embarrassing decisions. Mark Wilson wrote about attorney Jennifer Gaubert, whose behavior is sending her to jail in his blog post, “Drunk Lawyer Who Groped Cabbie Convicted of Criminal Mischief”. The lawyer took
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There’s a saying that you should be careful for what you wish for, but what’s even more important is to be careful what you promise. Leah Beno reports at KMSP-TV in Minneapolis that Target promised about 40 people new jobs, then those new hires were told two weeks before they were supposed to start that they
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We often talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but here’s a case of robbing getting even more out of hand. In DNAInfo, Erin Meyer describes a man who committed one crime for another in her story, “Student Stole Laptops To Pay Court Fees From Burglary Case, Officials Say.” The laptops were stolen from a health
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Some groups are so desperate for attention, they’ll do whatever they can to attract publicity. Even the Ku Klux Klan has its own promotional plan, though it seems like fiction. Dana Wachter’s story “KKK drops recruitment candy bags in Oconee Co. neighborhood” for Fox Carolina describes how people in a suburban area found bags of
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Often, it seems attorneys wished judges would get bad press and get scrutinized by the public, when they make a “bad” decision against their client. Well it looks like Cook County jail is helping them achieve that. The Chicago Sun-Times has an article by Robert Herguth and Dane Placko about judges getting upset because they have to show their
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