By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 9, 2014
Working together, these two can make a crisis management dream team. Apart, well, watchout! Getting your legal and crisis management teams to work together is a frequent topic on our blogs for a reason. Together, these two can help craft the ideal response to just about any situation, but if they wind up at odds […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 23, 2014
Network’s latest hire creates huge crisis management risk Even in an era where many members of the media are more keen on big ratings than credibility, Fox is scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of reputation. While one might expect the network, lambasted regularly for biased reporting and a lack of fact-checking, would […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on September 18, 2013
How will the organization handle the revelation of Scout-on-Scout abuse records? The Boy Scouts of America is surely ramping up crisis management efforts as it faces what could be another major blow to its reputation, with a Florida judge ordering the first known release of documentation regarding Scout-on-Scout abuse. The Sarasota Herald Tribune’s Elizabeth Johnson […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on March 6, 2013
[Editor’s note: In this guest post, Don Martin, president of Don Martin Public Affairs, outlines the dangers that arise when legal and PR don’t work together, as well as the benefits to be reaped when they cooperate.] In most corporate situations or crisis the inevitable question arises about which role is paramount — the legal […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on November 29, 2012
Reputation management is key in sensitive situations Jill Kelley, the unofficial social liason to MacDill Air Force Base, is at the very center of the David Petraeus scandal. It was Kelley’s complaints to the FBI about threatening letters from Paula Broadwell that initially started the investigation into the situation, and now that the proverbial stuff […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on June 13, 2012
Learn crisis management from the pros Tonight marks the premiere of The Crisis Show, a broadcast featuring the talents of Bernstein Crisis Management president Jonathan Bernstein, crisis/litigation expert Rich Klein and social media pro Melissa Agnes. Together, they will take a look at the major crisis management cases of the day, provide an overview of […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on January 19, 2011
[I very rarely cross-post, but I couldn’t resist putting this “press release” here as well as on Huffington Post today, where it was titled “Mom Always Wanted Me to Be a Lawyer.” Already, from HuffPost, I had one person think I was serious, which was kinda fun. I hope you enjoy it!] Bernstein Crisis […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 7, 2010
Which of the following statements about a jury, civil or criminal, are true? Prospective jury members never lie regarding their advance bias about a case. Jury members are always truly “peers” of the defendant. Jury members never talk about a case outside of jury deliberations, or read and watch TV about a case when sequestered, […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on April 9, 2010
DON’T make the media your primary means of communicating on pending or current litigation in progress. Journalists are not a reliable means of ensuring that your key audiences receive your messages, nor is it a reporter’s job to make sure everything you think is important gets to the right people. DO communicate directly with your […]
Jonathan L. Bernstein, founder and Chairman of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc. has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of crisis management – crisis response, vulnerability assessment, planning, training and simulations.[Read more ...]
Erik Bernstein is president of Bernstein Crisis Management. Erik started with BCM in 2009 as a writer and subsequently became social media manager for the consultancy itself as well as for a number of BCM clients before moving to the president position.
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