http://www.legalprblawg.com/ ROBERT H. BORK, JR., IS AN experienced advocate specializing in the development and implementation of communication strategies in support of litigation and legal policy. en-us Copyright 2009 on Behalf of the Bork Communications Group LLC - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:31:00 EST 20 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=134 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 2/23/2009 EST Here's a cheat sheet for corporate communications types who have to manage their company's litigation PR. Walter Olson at Point of Law gives you a list this morning of where the trial lawyers are expandin ... Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:24:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=134 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=132 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 2/8/2009 EST You can never say it enough to your client: "Stay on message… Remember to bridge back to the message… Repeat the message... Say it again and again." Clients hate this. They get bored repeating t ... Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:23:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=132 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=131 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 2/5/2009 EST How do you explain being taken in the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? This is the quite real challenge confronting the many investment firms and money managers who invested their clients' wealth with Bern ... Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:18:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=131 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=129 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 2/2/2009 EST Minnesota Public Radio story today about the Coleman/Franken Senate recount court battle validates litigation pr: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the Univer ... Mon, 2 Feb 2009 08:20:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=129 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=128 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 1/25/2009 EST Here's a handy list of the top 300 law blogs ranked by traffic. Anybody who needs or wants to follow what's happening in the law will find this very useful. And no, legalprblawg, isn't listed because we j ... Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:25:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=128 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=127 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 1/22/2009 EST Reporters live blogging trials is indeed "the wave of the future" as LexBlog writes today . I've seen it myself. The concern I have as a litigation pr practitioner is the difficulty it creates in helpi ... Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:10:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=127 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=115 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/24/2007 EST Here's my answer to my post on Barry Bonds' PR options . Option d) bench yourself and send in a pinch hitter. Who gets the call? Liz Bonds, your wife. Sports wives have often come to the defens ... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:16:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=115 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=114 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/24/2007 EST Read the amazing story of Chiquita Brands International's illegal payoffs to Columbian terrorists in an extortion scheme and prosecution by the US government. To those inside the company it must have ... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:31:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=114 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=113 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/24/2007 EST Okay, you're Barry Bonds' PR consultant and now it is your turn at bat. The government has indicted your client for obstruction. Do you: a) bunt, b) single, or c) swing for the fence? The conse ... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:37:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=113 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=95 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 3/30/2007 EST LawBeat offers this list of top-10 sins of legal reporters. Those of us who deal with legal reporters from the corporate side probably could double this list to twice the size. This is a good place to sta ... Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:33:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=95 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=94 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 3/30/2007 EST I am in Miami visiting relatives and the the punchline to that great Henny Youngman joke is all I can think of when I read about the US Attorney firing crisis at DOJ. (I interviewed Mr. Youngman here 30 y ... Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:19:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=94 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=90 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 1/18/2007 EST We are in DC today at a fascinating conference called "The First 72 Hours of a Governmental Investigation" put on by the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. George J. Terwilliger III of Whi ... Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:59:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=90 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=80 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/31/2006 EST Johnson & Johnson General Counsel Russell C. Deyo talks in January's edition of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about the importance of company philosophy -- in J&J's case, its Credo. We've worked ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:44:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=80 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=78 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/20/2006 EST What do you do when your client wants to fire you? Most lawyers withdraw gracefully, I think. If you are superstar trial lawyer Bill Lerach however, you create a PR problem for yourself by filing papers wit ... Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:13:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=78 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=77 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/20/2006 EST A sign that we are winning, that's what. As The Tortellini notes somewhat grumpily, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America has changed its name to the American Association for Justice . To her, thi ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:22:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=77 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=75 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/7/2006 EST Today's frontpage of The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) tells the interesting story of Edelman PR's efforts on behalf of Wal-Mart . Couple that with the Journal's Q&A with Wal-Mart's PR g ... Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:19:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=75 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=74 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/3/2006 EST The always sensible Steve Chapman notes in the Chicago Tribune that "coincidence is not a cause." The whole episode was a case study in the folly of policymaking by anecdote. Certainly there were wo ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:23:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=74 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=73 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 12/1/2006 EST This headline in the Boston Globe got our attention: "Few chances for lawyers to develop trial skills." In legal circles, the phenomenon is so widespread that it actually has a name: the vanishing ... Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:00:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=73 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=71 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/28/2006 EST We are always on the lookout for interview examples that make great training lessons. Here is General John Abizaid being presented with a loaded question by CBS reporter Lara Logan. Does he accept her false ... Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:34:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=71 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=70 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/27/2006 EST The New York Times' David Carr wrote an interesting piece about the current flood of subpoenas reporters are geting for their notes and sources. It chonicles the current frustrations of Eve Burton, Hearst ... Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:49:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=70 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=68 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/23/2006 EST VNRs, or Video News Releases, are under fire and were even before the vehemently anti-corporate Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) issued a report last April showing that this pr tool is sometimes mis ... Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:22:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=68 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=69 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/24/2006 EST But seriously, if you are looking for blawgs, the place to go is Blawgsearch.com . A colleague tipped me off to this great resource and now we're listed there, too. Not too much to say about it except th ... Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:42:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=69 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=67 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/21/2006 EST The editors at The New York Sun make the point today that we made in our last post: "So where does Dow Corning go to get its $3.2 billion back." But they go further to link this most famous tri ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:23:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=67 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=66 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/17/2006 EST Word comes today that the FDA has approved resumption of unrestricted sales of silicone breast implants . The action comes 14 years after the product was pulled from the market in a trial-lawyer-fuele ... Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:29:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=66 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=65 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/17/2006 EST Walter Olson, the godfather of legal blogging with his overlawyered.com and PointofLaw.com sites, draws our attention to ATLA's plans for the new Congress . The line that grabs us is ATLA lobbyist's asser ... Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:02:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=65 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=63 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/15/2006 EST Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams, blawgers extraordinary, have an interesting interview on their Coast to Coast podcast: From print journalists and blawggers to television reporters and radio pers ... Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:18:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=63 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=64 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/15/2006 EST Once again lawyers have overreacted and filed a lawsuit that harms their client's reputation more than it helps. The Wired GC has the story. Interestingly, it is a trademark infringement case involving a ... Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:58:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=64 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=61 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/10/2006 EST We were part of a story in National Journal last month about public relations professionals who specialize in Supreme Court cases. Just now got around to posting this, unfortunately. We can't link to the wh ... Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:23:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=61 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=59 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/10/2006 EST Funny post today on the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. "Why do defendants always mount a 'vigorous' defense?" Peter Lattman invites readers to think of other words to describe the job that defense lawy ... Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:42:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=59 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=58 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/10/2006 EST Back in 2005, the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas exploded. Fifteen people were killed. Eva Rowe's parents were among them and her wrongful death suit against the company was the last remaining and was to ... Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:11:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=58 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=57 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/10/2006 EST Want to know how it's done, legal pr, that is? Read Kent Jarrell's comments on behalf of Merck and its lawyers, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP when asked about the company's plan to increase its reserves ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:44:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=57 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=55 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/6/2006 EST There's a great new blog about legal reporting called LAWBEAT . It's written by Mark Obbie who is director of the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Mark is a ... Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:23:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=55 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=54 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/6/2006 EST Bork Communication Group -- BorkCG for short -- is five years old today. This is our third company doing litigation and crisis pr and in total we've been at this for going on 15 years. But it was five years ... Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:52:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=54 http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=53 Message by LegalPRBlawg.com on 11/1/2006 EST "I didn't apologize right before I did apologize." Okay, Senator John Kerry didn't say that, but it sounds like something he famously did say once before and might have said this time. Politics aside, the ... Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:45:00 EST http://www.legalprblawg.com/?i=53