Is your organization nearing an anniversary or significant milestone in its history? If so, celebrating it is a great way to publicize your accomplishments and look forward to the future. Marking a major anniversary or milestone promotes pride in the organization, builds goodwill among customers, donors and others and gives you a chance to build
With the rise of social media, many have argued that newsletters and blogs are dead. They say that social media is more prolific, more immediate and more engaging. It is all that and more. It is also extremely cluttered, and its format is somewhat limiting—especially for organizations that don’t have a budget for video or
President Trump’s budget proposal generated headlines and consternation across the nation. It also created opportunities for those facing cutbacks to tell their story and advocate for funding. One of our clients, LA BioMed, is featured in today’s LA Times’ column by Steve Lopez because of the potential loss of critical funding for its research. The
Creative storytelling to ensure coverage of litigation can be a major challenge for law firms and their marketing departments. Here is an example from our client, WilmerHale Law Firm and the ACLU. They joined other legal advocacy organizations in filing pro bono a lawsuit seeking to stop the California Department of Transportation’s (Caltrans’) seizures of
Our client, Kendall Brill & Kelly law firm, announced today the addition of a new partner, Robert Edward Dugdale. He is a top-ranking veteran federal prosecutor whose extensive trial experience will greatly enhance the firm’s white-collar practice and its litigation expertise. Widely recognized as one of the region’s best trial lawyers, Mr. Dugdale had served
Catalina and the other Channel Islands are often referred to as the “Galapagos of North America” because they harbor a tremendous diversity of plants and animals, including a disproportionately high number of species that are unique to the islands, called endemic species. But these and all island species face a greater risk of extinction because
The celebration of a new clinic to provide rehabilitative services to people suffering with COPD drew a big crowd, including LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, leaders in the COPD community and media. The new clinic is especially great news because it is the first in the area to offer rehabilitative services to people who don’t
We’re pleased to join our client, the LA Neighborhood Land Trust, in celebrating the acquisition of a former industrial site in the Del Amo neighborhood of Carson that will become a much-needed park for a community that has been fighting to get a park there for more than 20 years. Acquisition of the 8.5 acre
Located just 22 miles from Los Angeles, Catalina Island offers rare opportunities to escape the crowds. We produced this issue of the Conservancy Times magazine for one of the state’s oldest and largest land trusts, the Catalina Island Conservancy. The magazine describes how hiking is one of the best ways to explore the essence of
Forget the Terminator and Chappie. Here’s a chance to party with robots who can perform surgery, protect soldiers on the battlefield, read your mind to control a flying helicopter and teach kids about technology. The Silicon Valley Robot Block Party at the WilmerHale Law Firm in Palo Alto will feature the hottest robotic startups and
Storytelling can generate the media coverage that will help nonprofits raise funds, especially when the subject is an incredibly cute endangered fox. The Catalina Island fox population had once been as low as 100, but it has rebounded to more than 1,700, thanks to the hard work of the Catalina Island Conservancy and its partners.
Dr. Michael Yeaman, an LA BioMed researcher who’s helping develop a vaccine against the “superbug” MRSA, is interviewed on KNX News Radio’s Spotlight on superbugs, an hour-long special broadcast on the region’s only all-news radio station. KNX reaches more than 1 million listeners a week. To hear the broadcast, please click here.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center’s report that more than 100 patients were exposed to the Superbug CRE and two have died from infections caused by the CRE exposure triggered new interest in the development of a vaccine for another Superbug, MRSA, by researchers at our client, LA BioMed. KNBC-TV aired this story about the vaccine’s
With the recent measles outbreak rekindling the immunization debate, we wanted to share a report from one of our clients about an easy way to improve vaccination rates. Dr. Sylvia Yeh, an LA BioMed lead researcher, reports a 69% increase in vaccination rates among mothers of newborns when a hospital made a simple change in
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