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Dez Reads. Beach tests the limits of our HR department.
I don’t think there is a newsletter in Washington that generates the kind of whiplash our first two Dez Reads submissions do this week. Sam zooms out on modern sports…
March Madness’ Million Dollar Moments
Nothing quite captures the greatness of sports – sacrifice, ambition, competition, achievement, pain, glory – quite like March Madness. As two sports fans from the Heartland leading a firm with…
Dez Reads. Cockroaches & Culture
Just another week where reality outperformed fiction. Mark Emerson here with the pen. There’s a lot to unpack this week. Let’s get into it. Anne Marie kicks us off with…
Nothing quite captures the greatness of sports – sacrifice, ambition, competition, achievement, pain, glory – quite like March Madness. As two sports fans from the Heartland leading a firm with…
Just another week where reality outperformed fiction. Mark Emerson here with the pen. There’s a lot to unpack this week. Let’s get into it. Anne Marie kicks us off with…
The NCAA filed a temporary restraining order against DraftKings for using “March Madness” and “Final Four” in connection with its betting products. The legal argument is straightforward. The strategic argument…
Every March, thousands of marketers commit a completely avoidable legal error. They slap “March Madness” on a promotion, send it out the door, and assume that because the phrase is…
I still fill out my bracket the old-fashioned way. Gut picks, a little overconfidence, and just enough conviction to be completely wrong come Friday afternoon. It’s Mark at the helm…
By. Josh Culling, Anne Marie Malecha, William Kim, Nathaniel Beach, and Madeline Nagler My childhood was built on pizza and The Boxcar Children. Every book I read earned me a…
At Dez, we love a good scrap. In our day jobs, I mean entering high-pressure situations and often punching back on behalf of our clients. On the couch, for many…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. — February 9, 2026 — Dezenhall Resources, a leading crisis management andstrategic communications firm, announced the the hiring of Sam Jefferies, who rejoins the firm…
