Legal Marketing Expert Gina Rubel to Present at Pennsylvania Bar Institute CLE Series - Breaking Down the Basics

PHILADELPHIA, PA, January 16, 2011 (Press-News.org) On Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, Gina F. Rubel, Esq., president and CEO of Furia Rubel Communications, will present at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) continuing legal education program, "Ethics of Social Networking." The course will be held as part of PBI's "Breaking Down the Basics" series in Philadelphia at the CLE Conference Center. The two-hour seminar will begin at 11:30 a.m. and a simulcast of the course will be available at the PBI Professional Development Center in Pittsburgh and the PBI Conference Center in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Rubel, a legal marketing and social media expert and author of Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers, will explain the ethics of social networking and how attorneys can leverage these platforms to build business.

"Breaking Down the Basics" is a new series of practical seminars that will provide attorneys with the foundational "how-to" in several key areas of practice. Designed for the new attorney, or the attorney who has recently changed practice areas, started his/her own firm or expanded into new areas in a general practice, these programs will provide practical nuts and bolts information. To register, and for more detailed information about the seminar and faculty, visit PBI's website at: http://www.pbi.org.

Rubel has handled a wide range of communications from internationally publicized death penalty appeals to whistle blower matters to multi-million dollar verdicts and other high stakes litigation. A nationally sought-after speaker, she runs a public relations and marketing agency with a niche in representing professional service firms. Rubel and her company have won many awards for public relations, marketing, website design, legal communications, corporate philanthropy and leadership. Rubel maintains a blog at http://www.ThePRLawyer.com, is a regular contributor to The Legal Intelligencer and The National Law Review and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. She can be found on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ginafuriarubel or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ginarubel.

About Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.: Furia Rubel Communications, Inc. is an award-winning, women-owned certified public relations and marketing firm located in Doylestown, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. The firm provides strategic planning, public relations, interactive communications, websites, social media, marketing, media relations, crisis communications, internal communications / employee relations and merger and acquisition communications to a wide array of clients including law firms, educational and religious organizations, financial service providers, non-profits, retail property management, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, biotechnology, and elder care companies, and professional service firms. For more information, visit http://www.furiarubel.com.

Furia Rubel is a certified woman-owned (WBE) Philadelphia-area public relations agency. We provide expert strategic planning and public relations / publicity services to lawyers and the legal industry, professional service firms, business-to-business organizations (B2B), education and nonprofit institutions. We also work with companies with unique service offerings such as internationally-acclaimed authors, special events and green initiatives.