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Richard Levick – Speak Truth With Love, Not Anger
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” — Nelson Mandela (born July 18, 1918) The anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth would, by minutes, have been the same day as John…
Read MoreRichard Levick – “We Want to Do the Right Thing”
Recently we ended an article with the question we are so regularly asked by companies in this new Civil Rights era – “Can you help us to do the right thing?” Weighed down by historical actions or inactions or simply overwhelmed by the enormity of the task before us, many companies and institutions are…
Read MoreRichard Levick -The Page Has Turned
Almost exactly 56 years ago, on July 2nd, 1964, after Lyndon Johnson’s Herculean triumph, passing the Civil Rights Act, he allegedly told aides, “We have lost the South for a generation.” How is it that a conservative, white southern President, never known as a champion of Civil Rights, would rise to the moment, risk…
Read MoreRichard Levick – Into the Breach
Take a listen to a special edition of In House Warrior, the daily podcast of the Corporate Counsel Business Journal, as John Mullen, of the law firm Mullen Coughlin, which handles approximately 2,500 cyber incidents a year, provides insight into best cyber practices. It’s 25 minutes well-spent. Please also take a look at NewsWhip/Axios’ analysis of social media…
Read MoreRichard Levick on the Changing U.S.-China Relations
Not too long after 9/11, LEVICK was asked to defend the Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo. As staunch U.S. allies, the Kuwaitis wanted to distinguish their detainees who had been swept up in the U.S. dragnet that had detained many hundreds of Arab men, in some cases, with little or no information connecting them to…
Read MoreRichard Levick: “Show Me, Don’t Tell Me”
“When you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity … then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.” – Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 That same year, when I was almost six years old, I was listening to…
Read MoreRichard Levick: “Show Me the Money”
Did Homer ever want to turn back? Was the Unsinkable Molly Brown tempted by exhaustion at the oar of Lifeboat No. 6 as it navigated the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean after the sinking of the Titanic, awaiting rescue? Did Louis Zamperini have days of hopelessness, lost at sea for 47 days and…
Read MoreRichard Levick: “I’m Not Messing Around”
Richard S. Levick, Esq., Chairman & CEO, LEVICK Elon Musk is “not messing around,” vowing to sue Alameda County, California, where its main plant is headquartered. Texas and Nevada are aggressively angling to snatch his business. A boycott is threatened against COSTCO over the company’s nationwide mandatory mask policy. Low tax states have relaxed lockdowns earlier than…
Read MoreRichard Levick on Maintaining Mental Health During The Big Pause
Have you considered why John Krasinski’s homespun video series “Some Good News” has proven so popular during the pandemic? Dan Gillison, Jr., CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), would tell you it’s because so many of us are looking for signs of humanity, for a way to celebrate our front-line heroes, for reaffirmation that…
Read MoreRichard Levick Discusses Heartache in the Hot Zone
Just over three weeks ago, on the last morning of his life, I couldn’t get into the ICU to visit my younger brother, Gary, one last time. We had sat vigil the night before, the entire family, blessed to be there, because doctors, nurses and security felt empathy for us in the extreme confusion…
Read MoreRichard Levick Discusses Essential Information
Richard S. Levick, Esq., Chairman & CEO, LEVICK What compels us to risk dying for an idea, especially over irresistible love? What has happened to this collective spirit that for most of two centuries defined Americans and patriotic citizens the world over? Perhaps the collective sense of purpose will be one of the long-term benefits…
Read MorePR Masters Series Podcast, Episode #4 – Richard Levick
Overview The Stevens Group is pleased to present a new podcast series that salutes the masters of public relations and revels in their observations, insights and advice to PR professionals. This new series is part of the ongoing partnership between The Stevens Group and CommPRO to bring to PR, digital/interactive and marketing communications agencies the wisdom of…
Read MoreCommunications Best Practices: How to Anticipate & Avoid a Crisis – Richard Levick (VIDEO)
Editor’s Note: Richard Levick, Chairman and CEO of LEVICK, a crisis and public affairs-focused communications agency, shares perspective on the importance of integrity, anticipating issues and being proactive to avoid crises. He discusses the importance of risk mapping to identify potential issues and highlights the risk to PR and communications firms of not using ethical or…
Read MoreRichard Levick on Communicating Trust in an Age of Crisis (Video)
Editor’s Note: Richard Levick, CEO of LEVICK PR takes a deep dive into strategic crisis communications management on a recent episode of SmartPros from the Financial Management Network
Read MoreThe Stevens Group PR Masters Podcast Acquispectives – Richard S. Levick
Richard S. Levick, Esq., Chairman & CEO, LEVICK “A real challenge in crisis communications is that too many people are tactical. It really requires for us to be strategic, to understand the business and the law and global implications and see where issues are going next.. to read the tea leaves. We should always be…
Read MoreLEVICK 2019 Year in Review
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner Richard S. Levick, Esq., Chairman & CEO, LEVICK In 1790, George Washington referred to the new American government as “…the last great experiment in promoting human happiness.” Through nearly two and a half centuries it has been tested by every generation, sometimes more than…
Read MoreRichard Painter, Minnesota’s Democratic Senate Candidate; Corruption and the Great Partisan Divide
Watch Richard Painter and Other Top Talent in Legal, Media and Communications on June 13th at #TruthonTrial. Richard Painter, Former White House Chief Ethics Counsel & S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota sits down with Doug Simon for a quick preview of the upcoming live-stream “Truth on Trial: Implications for Communicators…
Read MoreLEVICK Responds to Hurricane Maria Destruction with “PR for PR” Fundraiser
CommPRO Editorial Staff LEVICK is uniting the Washington, D.C. public relations industry in support of Hurricane Maria disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico with the PR for PR Fundraiser, a happy hour fundraiser at District Anchor on Oct. 11. At its core, the industry-wide event is intended to make the largest possible impact for the…
Read MoreMy Old Man
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys’.” – Harmon Killebrew It is that time of year when the Men’s College World Series is on and also that time…
Read MoreLoss & Hope
“Ah death. A change of clothes.” – The Dalai Lama What we remember are the stories. It is what holds us together. Families. Communities. Countries. I am pretty sure Santa was not there at the creche and that George Washington did not fell his father’s cherry tree, but these stories give us a foundation and…
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