There’s a Reporter on the Line: 10 Tips to Ethically Maximize a Media Phone Interview

07 Mar , 2025

To register for the upcoming live webinar, please Click Here

You’ve arranged to speak with a reporter. Do you know how to deliver insights that are memorable? Do you know the boundaries of what you can say to advocate for your client, without going beyond what is permitted when engaging in extrajudicial communications? Review the relevant Rules of Professional Conduct with an eye on keeping your remarks ethically sound. Learn how to respond to questions with quotable answers that get your points across.

Ethical Considerations:

RPC 1.6 Rule of Confidentiality of Information

RPC 3.6 Rule on Extrajudicial Statements

RPC 3.6(a) Trial Publicity

RPC 3.6(c) Trial Publicity: Limits Do Not Apply

RPC 3.6(d) Trial Publicity

RPC 3.8 (f) Prosecutors

ABA Model Rule 8.4(c) Conduct involving Dishonesty, Fraud, Deceit or Misrepresentation

ABA Model Rule 8.4(d) Conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice

FRCP 11 Prohibits filing a pleading for any improper purpose

 

To register for the upcoming live webinar, please Click Here

More Webcasts

Trade Secret Litigat...

This course on trade secrets litigation provides real-world best practices through all key stages of...

Trial Starts Now: Wi...

Trial Starts Now: Winning the Final Six Months provides a comprehensive guide to the critical tasks ...

Beyond the Bargainin...

Modern mediation increasingly brings together parties, counsel, and neutrals across a broad range of...

The Perfectionism Pa...

Perfectionism is often rewarded in the legal profession. It drives attention to detail, thorough pre...

Federal Contractor B...

As the largest purchaser of goods and services in the world, the United States Government requires f...

Discovery: Practical...

This program provides a practical roadmap to mastering every stage of the discovery process in civil...

Digital Organization...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and other digital-native structures have moved from ni...

Culture Repair™: W...

When the investigation concludes, the discipline is issued, and the file is closed, most organizatio...

Preventing Death by ...

Lawyers lose hundreds of billable and operational hours every year to poorly managed meetings. Unfoc...

Evidence in Action: ...

Objections are among the most powerful — and most misunderstood — tools in a trial lawye...