Sports reporters aren't known as the smartest guys in the newsroom, but it's almost like Mike Wise of the Washington Post was trying to prove just how dense he could be.  In so doing, he unintentionally made a powerful point about the usefulness of Twitter for professionals. The backstory:  Wise, by most accounts a solid journalist, has a beef...

Congress snuck a surprise into this summer's financial reform legislation, and it's one that could turn into a PR nightmare for corporate America.  As reported in the Financial Times, nestled deep within the Dodd-Frank financial reform act is a provision that requires U.S. companies to "disclose the ratio between their chief executive's pay...

Yesterday's New York Times business feature about crisis management has undoubtedly been the talk around many PR water coolers today.  The Times uses the crises facing BP, Toyota, and Goldman Sachs to take a closer look at crisis management.  Although the article raises a number of interesting and controversial questions, one aspect was...

We just wanted to spread a little holiday cheer, not kick-start a bizarre cultural craze halfway around the world. It was last year around this time when we started brainstorming a design for our holiday card.  Given the state of the economy in 2009, an overly joyous card didn't feel right.  What people could really use, we figured, was a release...

The fourth season of Mad Men is underway, and it kicked off with an episode on a subject near and dear to our hearts.  Not boozy lunches or awkward Thanksgiving dinners-no, we're talking about "Public Relations," the title and subject of the season premiere.   (Yes, yes, we're three episodes in already, but with the power outage in DC that knocked...

With the legal battle over Arizona’s immigration law reaching a fever pitch, we reached out to an all-star cast of DC’s finest immigration attorneys and got their thoughts on the subject. Our participants were Andres Benach of Duane Morris; Andrew Greenfield, Managing Partner of Fragomen’s DC office; Laura Reiff, co-managing shareholder of...

"The world . . . no longer has any tolerance for - let alone fascination with - people who aren't willing to publicize themselves." So goes the lament in a recent think piece from Ben Brantley of The New York Times.  For a guy who normally writes theater reviews (extremely well, by the way), he proves himself to be a pretty interesting thinker...

Slate ran a fascinating article this week analyzing the improbable surge in popularity of most unlikely product:  Worishofer sandals.   Worishofer sandals are hardly the latest offering from DKNY; they were, until recently, a mostly forgotten line of sandals with an insole designed by a German podiatrist back in 1940.  "Worn primarily by European...

Nervous about networking online?  If you're a lawyer and you said yes, you're not alone.  Many attorneys we speak with feel anxiety around social networking.  The sources of this understandable (yet irrational) fear are many - some are afraid of the time commitment required to learn the ins and outs of a network like LinkedIn, others...

More than three years ago, Denver-based Holland & Hart LLP created one of the first law firm climate change practice groups.  As one of the largest natural resources law firms in the U.S., the firm wanted to be ahead of the curve on an issue that is "coloring everything," says James Holtkamp, head of the practice group and resident in the firm...