JUVE Rechtsmarkt 11/2011
„Corporations involved in a lawsuit are often more afraid of a loss of reputation in the public’s eyes than loosing the case in the courtroom. Litigation communications is therefore gaining in importance. Lawyers have to take this development into account.“
JUVE has published a big story about litigation PR in their November issue, describing a client case of Holzinger Associates and quoting Stephan Holzinger. In a JUVE survey among the top 50 law firms in Germany, Holzinger Associates was recommended as an Expert Consultancy.
September 27, 2011
Retired Army Colonel Rudy Burwell Joins CLC-A Member Firm Hellerman Baretz as EVP for Crisis Communications & Litigation PR.
CLC-Alliance member firm Hellerman Baretz Communications is pleased to announce that retired Army Colonel Rudy Burwell has joined as Executive Vice President of Crisis Communications and Litigation Public Relations in its Washington office. Burwell has over 20 years of crisis management experience both abroad and in the United States, including serving as the Chief of Media Operations for the Multi-National Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom and as the Director of Army Reserve Communications. For more information, click here.
September 5, 2011
CLCA founding member and inaugural chairman Stephan Holzinger will speak as a panelist on the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation in The Hague from 8-9 December 2011.
Attached please find the current program.
27 May 2011
Increasing media-lisation of court trials
Stephan Holzinger of Holzinger Associates has been quoted as Litigation-PR-Expert in the liberal weekly "der Freitag". The story critically analyses the increasing level of media-lisation of court trials in Germany. Available only in German language here.
26 May 2011
Twitter and the law
Bell Yard’s Melanie Riley is quoted in PR Week magazine about the furore surrounding privacy injunctions in the UK and the prospect of journalists who flout the law via Twitter finding themselves subject to prosecution in future.
24 May 2011
Stephan Holzinger on the Kachelmann trial
Stephan Holzinger commented on the salience of the Kachelmann trial from a public opinon's perspective in ARD Morgenmagazin, Germany's leading TV morning show.
20 April 2011
Media
The newly founded BUJ association, representing corporate lawyers in Germany, reports in the first edition of their magazine "unternehmensjurist" about litigation PR, featuring CLCA founding member Stephan Holzinger as litigation PR-pioneer in Germany.
18 April 2011
New CLCA member in the Netherlands
The CLCA is delighted to welcome a new member firm in Northern Europe -- Van Kempen Litigation PR based in The Hague. Highly regarded for its crisis and litigation work, Van Kempen recently launched a dedicated unit to further grow this part of its business. It has experience of shareholder disputes, (tax) fraud, environmental catastrophe (criminal prosecution), mass litigation, medical (neglect) and forced relocation matters and has supported several internationally-known Netherlands based companies during sustained and high profile crises. For more information about Van Kempen Litigation PR’s capabilities click here.
15 April 2011
Social media and litigation PR
Read Bell Yard Communication's rough guide to how social media is transforming the world of litigation PR in the UK: click here.
11 April 2011
Study shows increase in reporting of legal disputes in German media and in dangerous ‘no comment’ responses
CLCA member firm Holzinger Associates has published a study of trends in lawsuit reporting in three German media sources for the period 2008-2010. Whilst the volume of reports involving legal matters increased, there was a disproportionate increase in the number of "no comment" responses which can result in a loss of trust and damage to a company or person’s credibility the author argues. The growth of the importance of social media in litigation PR is also mentioned. Click here for more information
28 March 2011
Litigation PR is growing in Italy
CLCA member firm Community is mentioned as a leading player in the field of litigation PR in Italian newspaper ItaliaOggi. The article also refers to Community being part of the CLCA international network of crisis experts which is able to assist with cross-border disputes. See pdf here.
February 2011
Journalism and PR - between co-operation and confrontation
CLCA-member Stephan Holzinger will present current trends and hot issues of Litigation-PR at a conference of netzwerk recherche e.V. and Hamburg University's Rudolf-Augstein (Der Spiegel) professorial chair. The netzwerk recherche ("research network") is the association of investigative journalists and editors in Germany. For the full programm, see here.
January 2011
CLC-Alliance member firms speak at Davos
On 17th February 2011, two member firms will be representing the CLCA at the prestigious “World Forum for Communication Top Managers” in Davos.
October 21, 2010
Community becomes Italian member of international Crisis & Litigation Communicators Alliance
Community, one of Italy’s leading communications consultancies, has joined the international Crisis & Litigation Communicators Alliance (CLCA), becoming their representative firm in Italy. PDF-Coverage
October 1, 2010
In the court of public opinion
A professional article about the essentials of Litigation PR in Switzerland written by CLCA partner Roland Binz and Franco Gullotti, published in the official lawyers magazine Switzerland (only available in German language).
October 2010
The CLCA-Experts Stephan Holzinger and Roland Binz analyze the Kachelmann trial (available only in German)
October 2010
CLC-Alliance Member Meeting in New York
Member firms of the CLC-Alliance will come together in New York City for the bi-annual meeting of the Alliance. In addition to meetings with several U.S. law firms and reporters, CLC-A members Stephan Holzinger and Melanie Riley will participate in a panel on litigation PR with the Law Firm Media Professionals group (www.lfmp.org).
September 22, 2010
Manipulation in the Courtroom
CLCA-Chairman Stephan Holzinger has been featured as expert in an article about litigation-PR and spin-doctoring in the courtroom of public opinion in Germany by Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: www.faz.net.
May 07, 2010
Judgements of serious consequences in the court of public opinion
Professional article of CLCA partner Roland Binz in the daily newspaper “Der Bund”, Switzerland (only available in German). The article is analysing the increasing influence of public opinion verdicts on the reputation of involved companies and leading figures.
February 15, 2010
CLCA-Partner Hellerman Baretz wins prestigious award
February 15, 2010
CLCA in action: Here is a case study of one of our recent cross-border cases.
January 18, 2010
CLCA-Chairman has again been quoted as an expert concerning the Investor Protection Act and its potential impact on corporations from abroad.
Here is the link to the Financial Times (D) story: FTD_01122010.pdf
January 06, 2010
UBS Imbroglio Offers PR Lessons
"Good news travels fast," the saying goes, "and bad news travels even faster." That addendum may sound pessimistic, but it has never been more true than it is now when it comes to PR and companies in crisis. Given today's global business environment and lightning-quick communications, news of a corporate public relations crisis can hopscotch from one continent to another in minutes, causing lasting harm in multiple locations without careful management.
November 30, 2009
Recent CLCA coverage:
The Crisis & Litigation Communicators' Alliance (CLCA) has recently been featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Wirtschaftsblatt and Der Standard.at (both Austria), as well as in the trade publications The Holmes Report and Bulldog Reporter (both USA), Persönlich and Klein Report (both Switzerland), PR REPORT and PR-Journal (both Germany), PR Week and Gorkana PR News (both UK), and Extradienst.at and Medianet.at (both Austria). Copies of the editorials are available through CLCA office.
November 25, 2009
Fireside chat:
Stephan Holzinger, Chairman of CLCA, speaks at PR PLUS in Heidelberg to communication professionals from many firms about litigation communications in a fireside chat. PR PLUS is Germany's only private PR-education with a state-acknowledged university degree.
November 16, 2009
Premier PR Firms Launch First International Communications Network for Litigation and Corporate Crises
Allows Coordinated Communications Strategy Across Continents
(New York), November 16, 2009 – In today’s world, business takes place globally - and so do PR challenges. In recognition, five prominent consulting firms today announced the establishment of an international network to provide clients with seamless crisis and litigation communications support as needed around the globe. The five founding members of the Crisis & Litigation Communicators’ Alliance, each a highly regarded boutique agency specializing in communications strategy in crisis and high-value litigation matters, are based in the U.S. (Hellerman Baretz Communications), U.K. (Bell Yard), Germany (Results: S. Holzinger!), Austria (PreventK) and Switzerland (Roland Binz Kommunikation & Image).
November 16, 2009
UK employment dispute with cross-border reputation/media advocacy implications
When several former members of Dresdner Kleinwort’s London-based management committee found themselves in dispute with the investment bank’s new owner, Commerzbank, earlier this year over unpaid severance and guaranteed bonus packages, media interest was not just confined to the UK where the legal claims were filed. Given the bank’s German HQ, the sizeable German government shareholding and that the Claimants ran global businesses within Dresdner Kleinwort with a significant German client base, the lawsuits attracted greater media attention in Germany than in the UK.
