Ernst & Young’s Numbers Add Up To Local Crown
By Joel Russell The Los Angeles Business Journal Click here to read the full article With a gain of 76 accounting professionals, Ernst & Young LLP became the largest accounting firm in Los Angeles County this year. That’s according to the Business Journal’s annual ranking of accounting firms by their number of accounting professionals in [...]
Spin the Agencies of Record
Yesterday, mediabistro.com featured Olmstead Williams Communications in their PRNewser column. Here’s what they had to say: Olmstead Williams Communications has added three new clients: FlexEnergy, a clean energy company that turns methane gas into near-zero emissions; Language Line Services, a phone service that provides language interpretation services; and Cloudworks, a cloud computing company. To see the [...]
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards in the Greater Los Angeles Area announce the 2011 independent judging panel
Los Angeles, CA – The Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards today announced the 2011 independent judging panel for the Greater Los Angeles Area. The panel, which selects the regional Entrepreneur Of The Year® award finalists and winners, is made up of local business leaders, including previous winners of the award, leading [...]
OWC Staff Hears NCAA President Address Town Hall Los Angeles
Yesterday, OWC staff had the opportunity to hear Dr. Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA, address Town Hall Los Angeles on “Achieving Student-Athlete Success” at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel. During his address, Dr. Emmert discussed several issues facing the well-being of student athletes, including scholarship policies, the necessity of sport/life balance, and the recent [...]
Despite Recession, High-Stakes Situations Warrant $1,000-an-Hour Lawyers for Some
When things get tough, some companies simply aren’t willing to skimp on legal services, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. As law firms across the nation have struggled over the past couple of years to create new billing structures and appease their recession-wary clients, some of the country’s leading attorneys have been charging [...]
Operating in the Clouds: The Benefits of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing promises to change the way companies and consumers view information technology, and some bullish industry experts have even likened it to the Industrial Revolution. Most of us are familiar with the term and have likely used a “cloud” service is the past. But what exactly is cloud computing? In simple terms, cloud computing describes [...]
Seasoned PR pro joins team at OWC to help manage new accounts as managing associate
Kaitlen Murphy has joined OWC to help manage the firm’s new accounts as managing associate. She was previously with Rogers & Cowan in Los Angeles, a division of Weber Shandwick Worldwide, for more than four years working on top-tier accounts such as LeapFrog, IBM, Ray-Ban, Dos Equis and others. More recently, she switched to the [...]
Identifying native language first step in meeting new healthcare accreditation standards
In the first post of a multi-part series on Healthcare Finance News, Language Line Services’ Oscar Arocha and Deborah Yvette Moore discuss the new Joint Commission standards on language access requirements for limited English proficient patients. Language Line Services is the global leader in telephone interpreting and language solutions and serves clients in government, healthcare, telecommunications, [...]
Crisis Communications
The article “Choosing the Outgoing Message: What We Should Have Already Learned From Nixon” by OWC President and CEO Tracy Williams is featured in the latest PRNews Crisis Management Guidebook/Volume 4. Tracy writes about reporting your own bad news to “cut the legs off the follow-up stories.” Tiger Woods didn’t learn from Nixon and neither [...]
Language Line CEO sees more need for interpreters
By Lane Wallace The Monterey County Herald Click here to view the full story Louis Provenzano Jr. wasn’t familiar with Language Line Services when he was recruited to the Monterey company seven years ago, but he knew right away it would be a good fit. The company’s main business, interpretation services, “was near and dear [...]
