Abby Major

Abby Major is a Managing Director in the Strategic Communications Division at FGS Global. She handles media and stakeholder relations, including spokesperson media training, crisis preparation and response, and message development to raise client profiles and manage reputations in challenging media and policy environments. Abby specializes in helping clients through high-profile and complex litigation, including major cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Previously, she served as Public Relations Specialist at a global law firm, McDermott Will & Emery. In this role, she secured media coverage for lawyers and their clients and developed communications around firm-wide initiatives, including pro bono service. Prior to McDermott, Abby was a Senior Account Executive at a public relations agency based in San Francisco where she worked with law firms and other professional service providers to increase their visibility and position them as thought leaders in key markets. Before that, she worked in the executive office at the Brookings Institution, a D.C.-based think tank.

Abby earned a BA from Wesleyan University in its multidisciplinary College of Social Studies program. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is becoming a playground aficionado with her young son, husband and rescue dog. The cat remains unimpressed by all of them.