PR News presents a variety of awards programs every year to establish regular benchmarks for communications excellence. In the legal PR space, the Legal PR Awards are the industry’s only program solely dedicated to outstanding campaigns and initiatives among law firms’ communications departments, and their agency partners.

Following are PR News’ Awards offerings. For information on these awards, including sponsorship, contact VP & Publisher Diane Schwartz at dschwartz@accessintel.com; 301-354-1761.

Legal PR Awards: The Legal PR Awards recognize the outstanding public relations and media efforts at law firms worldwide. This is the only awards program dedicated solely to recognizing the public relations achievements of communications professionals in the legal arena. For more than 61 years, With the Legal PR Awards, we underscore another watershed in our profession, recognizing the tremendous progress that legal marketing and communications professionals like yourselves have made.

Entry Deadline – December 2007

Winners of the 2006 Program:

Winners of the 2005 Awards Program:
www.prandmarketing.com/legal/Prn_legal_2004winners.html

Platinum PR Awards: The Platinum PR Awards shine a spotlight on the people and campaigns that have made an impact, and in most cases, are still making a difference. Winning a Platinum PR Award from one of the industry's most established publications will be one of your best PR accomplishments of the year. This program underscores the creative and effective ways in which communications plays a key part in nearly every area of business and community. PR News will salute the winners of the Platinum PR Awards on October 17th in New York City at the Grand Hyatt. Additionally, the winners will be profiled in the PR News' All-Stars Awards Issue in October. We wish you the best of luck as you prepare your entry and look forward to honoring those who've raised the bar on communication excellence.

Entry Dealine – May 2007

www.prandmarketing.com/awards/platinumpr

PR People Awards: It’s been said more than once that “it’s all about the people.” With the PR People Awards, PR News pays tribute to the diligence, creativity and smarts of communications professionals from companies large and small, PR firms and nonprofits. The award categories run the gamut from PR Professional of the Year at a corporation to the Top Crisis Communicator of the Year to the person with the most media relations savvy. The PR People Awards, presented by one of the industry’s most-read publications, PR News, gives you the opportunity to be recognized, whether it’s for a single campaign, an ongoing initiative or your overall communications strategy. 

Entry Deadline – June 2007

www.prandmarketing.com/awards/prpeople

CSR Awards: PR News' CSR Awards honor the corporations and their partners that have implemented and executed highly successful CSR campaigns in the past 12 months. The winning campaigns will serve as the best practices in CSR -- and this is no easy feat. In a time when the spotlight is on corporate accountability, an effective CSR program can make a long-lasting impression on the fabric of an organization and a company's reputation among its various constituencies. The PR NEWS CSR Awards are the gold standard in corporate citizenship and communications worldwide. Individual campaigns and ongoing CSR efforts are judged in seveal categories.

Entry Deadline: November 2007

www.prandmarketing.com/awards/csr

Nonprofit PR Awards: Juggling the needs of various constituents, managing critical public issues, projecting a positive image of an industry and its members – these are the many challenges facing communications professionals at nonprofits and associations worldwide. And for the first time, there’s an awards program that is solely dedicated to honoring the most talented PR people and teams in this sector.

Enter PR News’ Nonprofit PR Awards program and join a distinguished circle of those holding the key to “best practices” in the nonprofit communications arena. We’re not looking for the campaigns or initiatives that are just “good” or “make budget” : we’re looking for the best, the most innovative, the highly creative, those that exceed expectations.

 Descriptions of categories can be found at www.prnewsonline.com