| James F. Haggerty, Pres. & CEO | Harvey Englander |
| Sean Hughes | Eric Rose |
| Rachel Serlin | Bruce Berman |
| Joshua Plant |
James F. Haggerty
President and CEO
James F. Haggerty, President and CEO of The PR Consulting Group (PRCG), is an attorney, writer and communications consultant with more than twenty years’ experience in marketing, public relations and public affairs. Among the nation’s best-known experts in litigation and crisis communications, Jim has also earned a national reputation in environmental issues and “green” marketing, public affairs and professional services marketing.
In addition to advising legal, corporate and nonprofit clients on variety of communications matters, Jim has been involved in numerous high-profile lawsuits, including many of the largest cases of their kind in history. In the past decade, he has worked on the largest lawsuit ever filed against the United States government (the Cobell v. Norton Indian Trust class action), the largest employment class action in history (the Home Depot case), the largest single-family Holocaust restitution claim in history (the Wertheim Department Store case) and the largest child custody and support case in history (Duff v. Perelman). He has also led the communications effort in the Jonathan Pollard spy case and the historic Screen Actors Guild labor dispute against the commercial advertising industry.
The Washington Post recently called Jim “an expert on media strategies in high-profile cases,” while Ragan’s Media Relations Reports has called him “one of the nation’s foremost experts in Litigation PR.” During his representation of Patricia Duff in her famed child custody case with billionaire Ronald Perelman, the New York Observer noted that his work helped “even up the odds.”
From 1997 to 1999, Jim served as Senior Vice President and Director of New York Operations for The Kamber Group, one of the largest independent public relations firms in the nation. He has also worked in public affairs for the City of New York, and as a Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
From 1997-2001, Jim served as Executive Director of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), a worldwide federation of 75 law firms in 60 countries on six continents. Jim has worked on a variety of environmental and market-based public relations initiatives, including the development of a paper recycling mill in New York City, and sustainable development issues. He has also worked for numerous other business and nonprofit organizations on recycling, cleantech and other sustainability issues.
Jim is the author of In The Court Of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications (ABA Publishing, 2009). Now in its second edition, In The Court Of Public Opinion is a groundbreaking look at the use of communications and public opinion strategies during lawsuits. Financial Times called the first edition of In The Court of Public Opinion “…the perfect handbook for this age...” In The Court of Public Opinion was also positively featured in publications including The Boston Herald, The New York Law Journal, American Lawyer, Law Society Gazette, the Washington Post, The Holmes Report, PR Week and O’Dwyer’s PR Newsletter.
Jim holds a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature and Rhetoric from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and studied Law at Fordham University in New York and Stetson University in St. Petersburg, Florida (J.D.). He is admitted to practice Law in New York and Florida, and is a member of the New York City and New York State Bar Associations. A frequent writer and lecturer on communications issues, Jim’s articles and other writing has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, Law Practice Management and PR Week. [top]
Jim can be reached at jhaggerty@prcg.com
Sean Hughes
Sean Hughes is a Senior Account Supervisor at PRCG with specialties in media relations and public affairs. For more than a decade, Sean has worked with a broad range of corporate and nonprofit clients -- including some of the largest product liability cases, environmental cases and the largest antitrust settlement in US history. He has considerable experiences with professional service firms, healthcare organizations, bar associations, advocacy groups and alternative dispute resolution organizations.
Sean joined PRCG after starting his career at one of the countries top 10 largest public relations firms. Over the years, he has gained significant experience from managing and advising many clients on national public relations and public affairs campaigns. He has been active in some leading public policy debates such as Puerto Rican statehood, medical liability reform, arbitration issues, election reform and anti-tobacco campaigns. He also has significant experience in the healthcare industry by advising associations, hospitals and medical societies with their public relations initiatives.
Sean also has considerable crisis communication experience, working on issues that include women’s health, election fraud and consumer rights. He has advised multiple clients as they prepare to present their issues to all three branches of government (United States Congress, and Judicial branch including the Supreme Court and the White House).
Sean is very active in politics. He worked for two Members of Congress and a New Jersey State Senator, and has worked on numerous federal and state campaigns with a variety of responsibilities including media, community outreach and grassroots activities.
Sean’s work in the public relations field has yielded him numerous awards, including the 2003 and 2005 Gold Mercury Awards, and the 2003 SABRE and PR WEEK award for Public Affairs Campaign of the Year and was nominated for a 2010 SABRE Award for Associations for a national financial literacy campaign.
He is active in the community with the New Jersey Ancient Order of Hibernians as the State Treasurer and appointed to Public Affairs Director. He is the President of Fr. Solanus Division 32 in Bergen County, New Jersey. He serves as a Board Member to Mary’s Gift and is very active with Project Children, which provides humanitarian relief to the children of Northern Ireland. He is a previous recipient of the Project Children Humanitarian Award. He is also active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Northern New Jersey Chapter, American Cancer Society and Irish Network New Jersey.
Sean received his B.A. from Bloomfield College, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Communications. He has also attended professional development programs at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and the United Nations. [top]
Sean can be reached at shughes@prcg.com
Rachel M. Serlin
Rachel Serlin, an attorney, is an Account Executive with PRCG specializing in litigation, crisis and related issues. Prior to joining PRCG, Rachel had been in private legal practice in New Jersey with a concentration in local government law. She has also worked in legal capacities for the New York County District Attorney’s office and the New York City Police Department, and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Budd Goodman of the New York State Supreme Court.
Rachel’s media and public relations experience includes positions with CBS affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Weider publications, and The Star Group, an advertising and public relations firm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Rachel received her B.A. from George Washington University with a major in Communications, and her law degree from New York Law School, where she part of the Criminal Law Society and the Domestic Violence project. [top]
Rachel can be reached at rserlin@prcg.com
Joshua Plant
Joshua Plant is an Account Executive with specialties in media, promotions and social media. He has considerable experience working with law firms and environmental clients on a variety of marketing, public relations and public affairs assignments. He is also experienced in public events and managing the logistics of public relations activities.
Joshua is also a professional photographer and chef who has attended The French Culinary Institute. [top]
Joshua can be reached at jplant@prcg.com
Bruce Berman
Bruce Berman has been a Managing Consultant at The PR Consulting Group, since 1999. Over the past twenty years, Bruce has implemented marketing, investor relations, and public relations programs on behalf of more than 200 businesses and partnerships, and is a leading national authority on the monetization of intellectual property assets. Representative clients include technology and healthcare companies, merger and acquisition targets, corporate departments and divisions, investment bankers and partnerships, owners of patents and patents portfolios, brands and other IP, and law firms and practices.
Prior to his current work, Bruce served as Vice President - Financial Relations at Ruder & Finn, one of the oldest and largest public relations consultancies. Previously, he was Vice President at Rubenstein, Wolfson & Company (now a part of WeberShandwick PLC) focusing on professional services and investment banking clients.
Bruce’s articles have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Internet Letter, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, Managing Intellectual Property, BuySide and EuroBusiness. He has additionally been quoted on technology and IP-related issues in media outlets such as Buyouts, Reuters, Asset Sales Report, BondWeek, Crain's New York Business, EE Times, The New York Times and PR Week. He is both editor and contributing author of Hidden Value: Profiting from the Intellectual Property Economy (Euromoney Institutional Investor, 1998), and From Ideas to Assets: Investing Wisely in Intellectual Property , published in early 2002. Bruce is co-chair of the IP Marketing Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (L.E.S.) and is on the editorial advisory board of Patent Strategy & Management. Recently, he provided expert witness testimony in a litigation action involving the misuse of marketing resources.[top]
Bruce can be reached at bberman@prcg.com
Harvey Englander
Harvey Englander, PRCG’s Los Angeles partner, has been at the center of California’s political and business life for more than 40 years. From advising elected officials to counseling CEOs, few have Englander’s depth of experience and record of achievement. He brings his expertise at creating and running political campaigns for some of the biggest names in elected office to his work in developing communications and public affairs campaigns for companies and nonprofit organizations nationwide.
California’s leading media outlets have recognized Englander’s strong background in media relations and crisis management. Reporters from The Los Angeles Times, CBS, FOX, Orange County Register, San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily News, The San Diego Union-Tribune and other statewide and Southern California publications often seek his point of view and quote him on current affairs and political personalities.
PR News, a leading public relations industry publication, named Englander the 2003 Public Affairs Executive of the Year.
Englander serves as senior public relations/public affairs counselor to local, regional and national clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, trade associations, e-commerce companies and nonprofit organizations.
As a strategic planner, he has created and successfully executed numerous public relations and public affairs campaigns covering a wide variety of industries. From automotive and banking/finance/insurance clients to real estate developers and food and drug companies, Englander is known for his ability to step into a situation and create focus; implementing a strategic approach as a foundation for applying successful public relations tactics.
In December 1980, following twelve years working in politics and public affairs, he formed The Englander Group, specializing in public relations, public affairs, lobbying and political campaign management. The Englander Group merged with the Washington, D.C. based Kamber Group in 1994. In early 1999, Englander re-purchased his firm from Kamber. MWW Group subsequently acquired his firm.
Englander led the Los Angeles office of MWW Group, one of the nation`s top fifteen public relations firms, which is owned by InterPublic Group. Under his leadership, the Los Angeles Office tripled in size and also won numerous national and regional awards.
Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson appointed Englander to the Bi-Partisan California Commission on Internet Political Practices. Supervisor Don Knabe appointed Englander to the Los Angeles County Junior Golf Commission. He is also a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Lobbyists & Public Affairs Association.
In early 2005, Englander left MWW and opened an independent public relations and public affairs consulting practice, Englander Knabe & Allen. The firm specializes in developing and implementing Position -A- Strategies for its clients.
A UCLA graduate, Englander has also been involved in numerous community activities including having served on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association Los Angeles Chapter and is the co-founder of the ADA`s highly successful "Los Angeles Political Roast." He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association`s Los Angeles Chapter and he chaired the AHA`s "Downtown Los Angeles Heart walk". Harvey also serves on the Board of Directors of the West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation. [top]
Eric Rose
Eric Rose has more than two decades of experience as a political, public affairs, and government relations consultant. He has worked across the United States, as well as for international clients. Eric has provided communications strategy to candidates for public office, as well as a broad range of services to corporations and organizations including crisis management, labor relations, litigation support, issues advertising, visual communications, Q&A preparation for public hearings and testimony, and media training. Eric has experience in all major industries and has a specialty practice serving public safety unions.
Eric has extensive experience in communications strategy, crisis communications, and media relations for a variety of clients, with exceptional strength in interacting with the highest-level investigative reporters. He has served as a counselor to numerous Fortune 500 companies, trade unions and other organizations, interacting with senior leadership and advising them on corporate issues management, executive exposure, and media relations. Eric has worked for both political and public sector clients in industries including law enforcement, healthcare, energy, transportation, consumer goods, hospitality and leisure, and environmental management.
Eric comments regularly on communications issues and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California as well as to groups of public relations professionals. [top]
President and CEO
James F. Haggerty, President and CEO of The PR Consulting Group (PRCG), is an attorney, writer and communications consultant with more than twenty years’ experience in marketing, public relations and public affairs. Among the nation’s best-known experts in litigation and crisis communications, Jim has also earned a national reputation in environmental issues and “green” marketing, public affairs and professional services marketing.
In addition to advising legal, corporate and nonprofit clients on variety of communications matters, Jim has been involved in numerous high-profile lawsuits, including many of the largest cases of their kind in history. In the past decade, he has worked on the largest lawsuit ever filed against the United States government (the Cobell v. Norton Indian Trust class action), the largest employment class action in history (the Home Depot case), the largest single-family Holocaust restitution claim in history (the Wertheim Department Store case) and the largest child custody and support case in history (Duff v. Perelman). He has also led the communications effort in the Jonathan Pollard spy case and the historic Screen Actors Guild labor dispute against the commercial advertising industry.
The Washington Post recently called Jim “an expert on media strategies in high-profile cases,” while Ragan’s Media Relations Reports has called him “one of the nation’s foremost experts in Litigation PR.” During his representation of Patricia Duff in her famed child custody case with billionaire Ronald Perelman, the New York Observer noted that his work helped “even up the odds.”
From 1997 to 1999, Jim served as Senior Vice President and Director of New York Operations for The Kamber Group, one of the largest independent public relations firms in the nation. He has also worked in public affairs for the City of New York, and as a Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
From 1997-2001, Jim served as Executive Director of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), a worldwide federation of 75 law firms in 60 countries on six continents. Jim has worked on a variety of environmental and market-based public relations initiatives, including the development of a paper recycling mill in New York City, and sustainable development issues. He has also worked for numerous other business and nonprofit organizations on recycling, cleantech and other sustainability issues.
Jim is the author of In The Court Of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications (ABA Publishing, 2009). Now in its second edition, In The Court Of Public Opinion is a groundbreaking look at the use of communications and public opinion strategies during lawsuits. Financial Times called the first edition of In The Court of Public Opinion “…the perfect handbook for this age...” In The Court of Public Opinion was also positively featured in publications including The Boston Herald, The New York Law Journal, American Lawyer, Law Society Gazette, the Washington Post, The Holmes Report, PR Week and O’Dwyer’s PR Newsletter.
Jim holds a B.A. in Political Science and English Literature and Rhetoric from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and studied Law at Fordham University in New York and Stetson University in St. Petersburg, Florida (J.D.). He is admitted to practice Law in New York and Florida, and is a member of the New York City and New York State Bar Associations. A frequent writer and lecturer on communications issues, Jim’s articles and other writing has appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, Law Practice Management and PR Week. [top]
Jim can be reached at jhaggerty@prcg.com
Sean Hughes
Sean Hughes is a Senior Account Supervisor at PRCG with specialties in media relations and public affairs. For more than a decade, Sean has worked with a broad range of corporate and nonprofit clients -- including some of the largest product liability cases, environmental cases and the largest antitrust settlement in US history. He has considerable experiences with professional service firms, healthcare organizations, bar associations, advocacy groups and alternative dispute resolution organizations.
Sean joined PRCG after starting his career at one of the countries top 10 largest public relations firms. Over the years, he has gained significant experience from managing and advising many clients on national public relations and public affairs campaigns. He has been active in some leading public policy debates such as Puerto Rican statehood, medical liability reform, arbitration issues, election reform and anti-tobacco campaigns. He also has significant experience in the healthcare industry by advising associations, hospitals and medical societies with their public relations initiatives.
Sean also has considerable crisis communication experience, working on issues that include women’s health, election fraud and consumer rights. He has advised multiple clients as they prepare to present their issues to all three branches of government (United States Congress, and Judicial branch including the Supreme Court and the White House).
Sean is very active in politics. He worked for two Members of Congress and a New Jersey State Senator, and has worked on numerous federal and state campaigns with a variety of responsibilities including media, community outreach and grassroots activities.
Sean’s work in the public relations field has yielded him numerous awards, including the 2003 and 2005 Gold Mercury Awards, and the 2003 SABRE and PR WEEK award for Public Affairs Campaign of the Year and was nominated for a 2010 SABRE Award for Associations for a national financial literacy campaign.
He is active in the community with the New Jersey Ancient Order of Hibernians as the State Treasurer and appointed to Public Affairs Director. He is the President of Fr. Solanus Division 32 in Bergen County, New Jersey. He serves as a Board Member to Mary’s Gift and is very active with Project Children, which provides humanitarian relief to the children of Northern Ireland. He is a previous recipient of the Project Children Humanitarian Award. He is also active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Northern New Jersey Chapter, American Cancer Society and Irish Network New Jersey.
Sean received his B.A. from Bloomfield College, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Communications. He has also attended professional development programs at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and the United Nations. [top]
Sean can be reached at shughes@prcg.com
Rachel M. Serlin
Rachel Serlin, an attorney, is an Account Executive with PRCG specializing in litigation, crisis and related issues. Prior to joining PRCG, Rachel had been in private legal practice in New Jersey with a concentration in local government law. She has also worked in legal capacities for the New York County District Attorney’s office and the New York City Police Department, and served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Budd Goodman of the New York State Supreme Court.
Rachel’s media and public relations experience includes positions with CBS affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Weider publications, and The Star Group, an advertising and public relations firm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Rachel received her B.A. from George Washington University with a major in Communications, and her law degree from New York Law School, where she part of the Criminal Law Society and the Domestic Violence project. [top]
Rachel can be reached at rserlin@prcg.com
Joshua Plant
Joshua Plant is an Account Executive with specialties in media, promotions and social media. He has considerable experience working with law firms and environmental clients on a variety of marketing, public relations and public affairs assignments. He is also experienced in public events and managing the logistics of public relations activities.
Joshua is also a professional photographer and chef who has attended The French Culinary Institute. [top]
Joshua can be reached at jplant@prcg.com
Bruce Berman
Bruce Berman has been a Managing Consultant at The PR Consulting Group, since 1999. Over the past twenty years, Bruce has implemented marketing, investor relations, and public relations programs on behalf of more than 200 businesses and partnerships, and is a leading national authority on the monetization of intellectual property assets. Representative clients include technology and healthcare companies, merger and acquisition targets, corporate departments and divisions, investment bankers and partnerships, owners of patents and patents portfolios, brands and other IP, and law firms and practices.
Prior to his current work, Bruce served as Vice President - Financial Relations at Ruder & Finn, one of the oldest and largest public relations consultancies. Previously, he was Vice President at Rubenstein, Wolfson & Company (now a part of WeberShandwick PLC) focusing on professional services and investment banking clients.
Bruce’s articles have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Internet Letter, The National Law Journal, The New York Times, Managing Intellectual Property, BuySide and EuroBusiness. He has additionally been quoted on technology and IP-related issues in media outlets such as Buyouts, Reuters, Asset Sales Report, BondWeek, Crain's New York Business, EE Times, The New York Times and PR Week. He is both editor and contributing author of Hidden Value: Profiting from the Intellectual Property Economy (Euromoney Institutional Investor, 1998), and From Ideas to Assets: Investing Wisely in Intellectual Property , published in early 2002. Bruce is co-chair of the IP Marketing Committee of the Licensing Executives Society (L.E.S.) and is on the editorial advisory board of Patent Strategy & Management. Recently, he provided expert witness testimony in a litigation action involving the misuse of marketing resources.[top]
Bruce can be reached at bberman@prcg.com
Harvey Englander
Harvey Englander, PRCG’s Los Angeles partner, has been at the center of California’s political and business life for more than 40 years. From advising elected officials to counseling CEOs, few have Englander’s depth of experience and record of achievement. He brings his expertise at creating and running political campaigns for some of the biggest names in elected office to his work in developing communications and public affairs campaigns for companies and nonprofit organizations nationwide.
California’s leading media outlets have recognized Englander’s strong background in media relations and crisis management. Reporters from The Los Angeles Times, CBS, FOX, Orange County Register, San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily News, The San Diego Union-Tribune and other statewide and Southern California publications often seek his point of view and quote him on current affairs and political personalities.
PR News, a leading public relations industry publication, named Englander the 2003 Public Affairs Executive of the Year.
Englander serves as senior public relations/public affairs counselor to local, regional and national clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, trade associations, e-commerce companies and nonprofit organizations.
As a strategic planner, he has created and successfully executed numerous public relations and public affairs campaigns covering a wide variety of industries. From automotive and banking/finance/insurance clients to real estate developers and food and drug companies, Englander is known for his ability to step into a situation and create focus; implementing a strategic approach as a foundation for applying successful public relations tactics.
In December 1980, following twelve years working in politics and public affairs, he formed The Englander Group, specializing in public relations, public affairs, lobbying and political campaign management. The Englander Group merged with the Washington, D.C. based Kamber Group in 1994. In early 1999, Englander re-purchased his firm from Kamber. MWW Group subsequently acquired his firm.
Englander led the Los Angeles office of MWW Group, one of the nation`s top fifteen public relations firms, which is owned by InterPublic Group. Under his leadership, the Los Angeles Office tripled in size and also won numerous national and regional awards.
Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson appointed Englander to the Bi-Partisan California Commission on Internet Political Practices. Supervisor Don Knabe appointed Englander to the Los Angeles County Junior Golf Commission. He is also a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Lobbyists & Public Affairs Association.
In early 2005, Englander left MWW and opened an independent public relations and public affairs consulting practice, Englander Knabe & Allen. The firm specializes in developing and implementing Position -A- Strategies for its clients.
A UCLA graduate, Englander has also been involved in numerous community activities including having served on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association Los Angeles Chapter and is the co-founder of the ADA`s highly successful "Los Angeles Political Roast." He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association`s Los Angeles Chapter and he chaired the AHA`s "Downtown Los Angeles Heart walk". Harvey also serves on the Board of Directors of the West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation. [top]
Eric Rose
Eric Rose has more than two decades of experience as a political, public affairs, and government relations consultant. He has worked across the United States, as well as for international clients. Eric has provided communications strategy to candidates for public office, as well as a broad range of services to corporations and organizations including crisis management, labor relations, litigation support, issues advertising, visual communications, Q&A preparation for public hearings and testimony, and media training. Eric has experience in all major industries and has a specialty practice serving public safety unions.
Eric has extensive experience in communications strategy, crisis communications, and media relations for a variety of clients, with exceptional strength in interacting with the highest-level investigative reporters. He has served as a counselor to numerous Fortune 500 companies, trade unions and other organizations, interacting with senior leadership and advising them on corporate issues management, executive exposure, and media relations. Eric has worked for both political and public sector clients in industries including law enforcement, healthcare, energy, transportation, consumer goods, hospitality and leisure, and environmental management.
Eric comments regularly on communications issues and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California as well as to groups of public relations professionals. [top]