Jessica Smerin / Account Director

Jessica has 15 years’ experience as a legal journalist, where she has worked at the TMT Editor of The Legal 500, as a feature writer for Legal Business, as features editor of the Law Society Gazette, and as a researcher for The Legal 500 in the UK, EMEA, the Asia Pacific region and offshore. She was also written on corporate and financial law and multi-jurisdictional litigation as a freelancer for The Lawyer, Legal Week and the law pages of The Independent.

Jessica has worked as a PR consultant in the London office of Washington DC agency Levick Strategic Communications, where she focused exclusively on representing the London offices of transatlantic law firms. She has also worked on freelance PR assignments for several London offices of US-based law firms.

Jessica has native standard French, an MA in English from Cambridge University, Selwyn College, and studied for the postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism at the University of Wales, Cardiff College.