Rich Klein

Head of Law Firm Group/Beckerman Public Relations www.beckermanpr.com

Rich Klein, VICE PRESIDENT
rklein@beckermanpr.com

Rich Klein, who heads the Law Firm Group at Beckerman Public Relations, has more than 25 years of experience in public relations and journalism, including having worked almost exclusively with lawyers and law firms since the early 1990's.

He has spoken before bar associations on media relations and crisis communications and has written about these subjects in The National Law Journal, PRWeek and Strategies, the magazine of the Legal Marketing Association. His blog, “Views On Reputation,” deals with law firm marketing/public relations issues, crisis communications and reputation management.

In late 2008, he spoke before the New Jersey State Bar Association and a division of the Florida Bar. In January 2009, he is presenting a webinar for the Legal Marketing Association on Crisis Communications and Web 2.0.

Before coming to Beckerman, he headed Riverside Public Relations, where he represented law firms and other legal service providers. Earlier, he worked in the law firm groups at Rubenstein Associates and Magnet Communications, where he represented some of the nation’s best-known law firms. He has also held the top media relations positions at the Anti-Defamation League, the New York County Lawyers’ Association and Proskauer Rose.

Rich started his career as a journalist, first as a writer and editor for The Legislative Gazette (Albany, NY) and later as a sports writer for The Daily Freeman (Kingston, N. Y.) and The Ithaca Journal, where he was part of a sports reporting team that won a Best of Gannett award in 1985.