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The call comes at 3 p.m. A business reporter from the local daily wants to know if a lawyer in your firm can comment on a hostile takeover bid of a well-known local company. The reporter sounds harried; her deadline is just 2 hours off.
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PR pros toiling in law-firm marketing departments, however, have to look before leaping. Is there a chance the firm has represented the local company, even on an unrelated matter? If not, do any of your firm's clients have special sensitivity about the issue? Will the M&A partner in the Dallas office feel wounded if you put the Denver M&A partner in touch with the reporter?
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