Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

Is Steve Jobs Seriously Ill - This is bigger than public relations

It was so out there at the Apple iPhone announcement.  The Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs looked anorexic and not that chipper.  Some of us might have thought we were not seeing right.  But then the media, ranging from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL to DRUDGE REPORT, raised the issue - and it's a legal one - is this CEO very ill?  When they approached his public relations representative, the spokeswoman blew them off with "Steve got hit with a bug."  But this is bigger than public relations.  This could get the company into a shareholder suit. 

Populists Scruggs, Spitzer, Dann - Can We Save Them From Themselves

This week's THE NEW YORKER has an unusually objective profile of disgraced populist attorney Dickie Scruggs. By Peter J. Boyer, it chronicles Scruggs' journey from creative reformer lawyer to one who was caught trying to bribe a judge.  And we know that other populist attorneys, ranging from Eliot Spitzer to Marc Dann, also started out with noble intentions.  Then they fell from grace with a thud.

"CSI: Miami" - Alex Quits

The law is sometimes an absolute: Just the law, no ambiguity.  Dedicated coroner Alex found out that tough lesson in tonight's episode on "CSI: Miami."  Her son Brian, in attempting to keep his word to a friend, became entangled in a murder and attempted murder charge.  As he was being questioned by Horatio, Alex pushed back against the law.  She cut the interrogation short and said she was getting a lawyer.

Ronald McDonald - Is this clown a public nuisance?

Ronald McDonald, just like many other icons, products, and services in politically incorrect industries, could go down in history as a "public nuisance."  You ask: What's a "public nuisance?" or PN?  Well, that's a question the best lawyers, chief executive officers, and public relations firms are asking too.  The answer, as I explain in my hot-off-the-press free e-book "Public Nuisance Voodoo," is that no one knows.  That's the magic of this legal concept.  Download publicnuisancevoodoo.pdf

Will O.J. Off Himself, Cheating VANITY FAIR's Dominick Dunne Out of a Trial

Every week VANITY FAIR's court commentator Dominick Dunne buys his trusty copy of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.  Did Dunne worry this week when he read in NE that O.J. Simpson was suicidal and might off himself before his upcoming trial for armed robbery and kidnapping?  After all, covering it would be a plum assignment for Dunne.

Be Nice to The Help - Linda Stein Probably Offed by Her Personal Assistant

Appears that the police have gotten their man - actually woman - in the sensational Linda Stein brutal murder.  Nowadays, next to a love interest, the number-one suspect is The Help.  Resentment, my pretty.

Child-Woman Mary Winkler Learns to Problem-Solve

To Winkler-trial watchers, Mary Winkler aka Preacher's Wife seemed like a Child-Woman.  She obeyed like a child until the day she seemed to snap and offed her preacher husband Matthew.  On "Oprah," she seemed to have acquired, perhaps through therapy, a grasp that life was her responsibility to negotiate.  And, in her battle to re-gain her three daughters, she seems to be able to be making adult decisions.

Paris Back In Slammer - Pricey Lawyer Coaching Didn't Sway Judge Sauer

I called it last night.  I predicted that California Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer wasn't going to be swayed by the best coaching in the world which Paris Hilton probably received from her high-priced attorneys.  AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch reports that the heiress showed up in court this morning [west coast time] "disheveled and weeping, hair askew, sans makeup, wearing a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks."  There's more.

Mary Winkler Gets Light Sentence - God Bless Steve Farese

Genius defense attorney Steve Farese took on the Mary Winkler murder case pro bono.  If that wasn't enough, he extended himself to the media such as myself for interviews before legal proceedings started.  He wanted to get the parts of Winkler's story which could be told out there.  And today, it all came together.  Winkler received a light sentence.

Mary Winkler Asks For Mercy At Sentencing

In the Mary Winkler murder saga, genius defense attorney Steve Farese seems to continue to make all the right moves.  Today at her sentencing in Selmer, Tennessee, Winkler asked for mercy.  That had to be Farese's doing.  Winkler herself seems to be too emotionally frozen or intellectually slow to have known how to position herself today.