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.
Category: 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.
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.
Increasing media-lisation of court trials
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Litigation PR is growing in Italy
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.
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.