Katy McEwen-Smith

Communications Director

Katy brings considerable experience in PR, copywriting and brand management within the legal sector to MD Communications, having worked in the marketing and communications teams at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Stewarts and Browne Jacobson.

She has managed brand communications and a rebrand for Freshfields covering its 27 offices worldwide. She also achieved extensive positive regional and national media coverage for Stewarts where she headed up its PR.

She most recently worked at Browne Jacobson to help deliver their rebrand, refined the key messages to promote Browne Jacobson’s practice areas from Corporate, Financial Services and Insurance to its Education and Healthcare offerings, while scoping out the PR plans for these practice areas.

During her time at the firm, she also overhauled its social media strategy, trained teams across the firm to use LinkedIn and Twitter, and launched Instagram to attract candidates and provide a window into the culture of the firm.

Katy McEwen