Sentences with phrase «other publicity firms»

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Playboy, which had gone public in 1971, was taken private again in 2011 by Mr. Hefner with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment firm founded by Suhail Rizvi, a publicity - shy Silicon Valley investor, who has interests in Twitter, Square and Snapchat among others.

On the investment side, while the detention of Canadian investors John Chang and Allison Lu for commercial disputes with politically connected counterparts in China has gotten most of the publicity, other practices, such imposing technology transfer requirements on foreign investors, targeting foreign over local firms in enforcing environmental rules, and denying reciprocal treatment of investments in resource projects, banking, telecommunications and professional services are also cause for serious concern.

A new study reports e-readers may be sharing user information without consent; Victoria Strauss discovered a publicity firm's claims were far removed from reality; Charles Simic reveals his love for silent screen legend Buster Keaton; and other news.

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-- Networking: Although most publishing houses, literary agencies and book publicity firms are in New York — which means many of us see each other in person — many are not.

You see, I've also had a handful of authors recently who have found me and relayed terrible and unfavorable stories of working with a book publicist or publicity firm (or other outside / freelance help)[2] with an unhappy or very unfavorable outcome, similar to what Sharon wrote about.

The firm represents celebrities, models, professional athletes, and others in right of likeness / publicity cases.

But the class in this case (given its publicity and victims) would almost certainly have been able to find an NGO or a fancy law firm to donate its time pro bono or at subsidized rates, which is why under other circumstances I could understand the allergy of some of the survivors to being charged NYC market rate.

Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, Best Law Firms and D Magazine — as well as most other reputable ranking entities — also have publicity guidelines that should be adhered to when publicizing their honors.

By Jim Grandone Special Guest Author Grandone Media Strategies A lawyer I worked with recently summed up the love - hate relationship between lawyers and the news media as follows, «We spend 50 percent of the time trying to get publicity about our firm and the other 50 percent worrying about what the press is going to write about us.»