Legal
Public Relations
& Media Relations
PRforLAW, LLC
Richard Lavinthal
Managing Director
Richard Lavinthal is a nationally known legal public relations expert,who spent more than a decade leading press offices for federal and state prosecutors, and years in print, electronic and international wire service journalism. PRforLAW, LLC executes public and media relations strategy for civil, criminal and regulatory matters. Attorneys from mid-size and solo firms who need media coverage for big cases or seek to minimize the media impact of adverse civil, criminal or regulatory action are our clients.
Today's media-savvy attorneys recognize the valuable branding, marketing, case resolution and client advocacy from properly promoting important big cases, especially in uncertain economic times.
Privileged and non-public information is safe with Richard Lavinthal, who knows Rule 6 (e) from a decade as a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice in New Jersey and later as the first Director of Communications for the N.J. (State) Division of Criminal Justice.
August 2008 CLE: Legal Media Relations
Contact The
Bucks County, Pennsylvania Bar Association
April 19, 2008 Jupiter, Florida
Legal Media Relations and NewsBranding™
Keynote Address - Regional Law Firm Partners' Conference
Columns, Commentary and Quotes
Philadelphia Daily News April 21, 2008
WIBC Crime Beat Program,
Indianapolis, IN
April 5, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 7, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2007
Washington, D.C. Examiner: March 9, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer July 9, 2007
National Association
of Criminal
Defense Attorneys (NACDL) Sept. 6, 2007
The Times of Trenton Sept 4, 2007
Richard Lavinthal's OpEd suggests a new cyber-partnership between law enforcement and higher education.
Richard Lavinthal documents poor legal media relations by the JonBenet Ramsey / Mark David Karr prosecutor.
A former spokesman for The Hon. Samuel A. Alito, Jr., The Hon. Michael Chertoff and The Hon. Faith S. Hochberg when each was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Richard Lavinthal has directed the strategy, execution and placement for thousands of news releases and managed more than 100 news conferences involving live-fed national and international civil and criminal cases. He's been on-camera with breaking news and features, including the Discovery Channel's "Cold Case" program. Quoted locally and nationally, Lavinthal spent a pro bono decade as director of communications for the Vidocq Society in Philadelphia. At APBnews.com in New York City he managed media appearances by famed former FBI "profiler" John Douglas. Today Richard Lavinthal writes OpEd columns for major U.S. newspapers and lectures.on the press and media relations.
PRforLAW, LLC Services
- Best-practice legal media relations and case-specific legal public relations
- Breaking news planning, strategy and execution
- Litigation Web sites from concept to activation
- Legal Web site optimization
- Crisis communications
Call for a confidential, no-obligation, brief initial consultation. Keeping highly sensitive information forever confidential or at "close hold" is our specialty.
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