About Rich
Klein
President, Riverside Public Relations LLC
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Rich Klein, president of Riverside Public Relations LLC in
New York, NY
and
Bethel, NY,
has spent the last 25 years in journalism and public relations, with extensive
experience in law firm public relations and marketing, crisis communications,
and litigation communications.
He has written and spoken extensively on these subjects. Most recently, his
article on law firms and crises appeared in the September 25, 2006 issue of The
National Law Journal.
Klein has also used his
blog
--and the blogs of others --to examine how the business world handles crisis
situations, law firm marketing and reputation, and public relations ethics.
Klein has helped organizations craft critical internal/external messages and
respond appropriately to the media when faced with negative or potentially
negative media coverage.
He is an active member of the
Legal Marketing Association and the Sullivan
County, NY Chamber of Commerce.
In late 2007, he served as a media advisor to Daniel Sturm,
who upset the incumbent to win the Town of Supervisor position in Bethel, the
fastest growing town in Sullivan County, NY.
Before starting his own company in 2002, he represented major law firms and
companies on a wide variety of issues while at Rubenstein Associates and at
Magnet Communications.
Earlier in his career, Klein held the top media relations positions at the
Anti-Defamation League,
Proskauer Rose and the
New York County Lawyers’
Association. In
short, he has more public relations experience serving lawyers and law firms
than almost anyone in the United States.
During the
1980's, he was a sports writer/editor at Newsday,
The Daily Freeman, and
The Ithaca Journal, where
he was part of a team that won a national award for Best Sports Coverage of all
Gannett newspapers in 1985. Klein started his career as reporter/city editor of
The Legislative Gazette,
a weekly in Albany, NY where he covered New York state government and politics
during the administrations of Mario Cuomo and Hugh Carey.