I feel lucky to be working with them, and grateful for the interest they have taken in my professional development, and the professional development of every other member of our team of
media deal lawyers.»
Not exact matches
Ms. McDougal, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Mr. Cohen was secretly involved in her talks with the tabloid company, American
Media Inc., and that A.M.I. and her
lawyer at the time misled her about the
deal.
Suddenly, injury
lawyers were everywhere, vetting digital marketing pros to battle it out for Google rankings or securing
media agents to land them
deals with major sporting franchises.
To me that indicates many firms are still working off of brochureware websites —
lawyer profiles, transaction lists,
media quotes, representative clients,
deals, etc..
Among the major
deals announced before work started to wither, Shearman advised medical device maker Synthes on its proposed $ 21 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, Chinese social
media player Renren on its initial public offering in the United States, and Dow Chemical on its planned $ 20 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco, which should keep
lawyers busy for years to come.
But
dealing with the
media can be a risky proposition, because the
media and
lawyers speak different languages, and what may be a dramatic turn of phrase to a reporter or blogger can destroy a
lawyer's client, case, practice, or reputation.
Two BT in - house
lawyers advised on the
deal — consumer general counsel Russell Johnstone and
media chief counsel Matthew Phillips.
Martindale - Hubbell,
dealing with a crisis to a core element of their product offerings (
lawyer ratings), showed the legal industry they are ill equipped to participate in social
media.
The founder has spent a great
deal of time researching and implementing social
media marketing and LawyerCams.com highly recommends
lawyers have social
media marketing profiles to add to their profiles on this site in addition to the
lawyers existing web site.
You've seen — and represented — them both: the attorney who is cocky, bordering on reckless when
dealing with journalists, and the
lawyer who is too
media - shy for his / her own good.
«Not only can things appear to have changed, judges and
lawyers need to be aware when
dealing with social
media evidence that you can't just do a screen capture of Facebook or print out of an e-mail because it can easily be changed,» she says.
If the
lawyer has just won a big case, closed a huge
deal, or been given an award, let them go ahead and talk to the
media AFTER going through the team process I describe below.
Banks and the holders of traditional assets are used to
dealing with matters of succession; the providers of new
media services may still have things to learn, and so do the
lawyers and personal representatives of the deceased.
The question arose when the Law Society of Upper Canada
dealt with conflict of interest allegations against Torys LLP
lawyers Darren Sukonick and Beth DeMerchant (now retired) in relation to their work on the sale of the Hollinger group of companies between 2000 and 2003 to companies including CanWest and Osprey
Media.