Complete Biography
Eva Van Brunt provides public relations and strategic communications for legal and professional services in Southern California. Based in Los Angeles, Ms. Van Brunt has nearly a decade of experience developing and implementing the communications and media outreach strategy for law firms, Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and small businesses.
Ms. Van Brunt began her communications career in 1998 on the Massachusetts political scene, working in press relations for notable political figures, including former Congressman Joseph Kennedy. When presented with an opportunity to move to Manhattan and work for one of the world’s largest and most recognizable public relations firms, Burson Marsteller, she did not hesitate. While there, she would receive her formal introduction to corporate and crisis communications, representing the public interests of clients like Philip Morris (now Altria), Accenture and the Salvation Army. In her subsequent years in New York, Ms. Van Brunt honed her craft at public relation agencies MWW Group and Porter Novelli, developing a keen intuition for media and marketing strategy, speech writing, event planning, launch management and media training of executives. Her client roster included GE Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers and SBLI USA Insurance.
Fuelled by a lifelong fascination with the law and often curious about her clients’ legal challenges, Ms. Van Brunt saw the bursting of the dot.com bubble as a chance to return to school for her law degree. She attended American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC, from which she graduated cum laude in 2005. After graduation, she passed the California Bar and practiced corporate law at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles. In her years of legal practice, she gained a working knowledge of how law firms function, how lawyers market themselves and the challenges involved in building a successful book of business. She also saw an opportunity to bridge her growing understanding of law with her communications experience to offer legal and business professionals a rare combination: a marketing professional who truly understands the practice of law.
In recent years, Ms. Van Brunt has successfully applied this formula, first as the West Coast Media Relations Manager for the largest international law firm in the world, DLA Piper LLP. While there, she had the chance to work with, train and promote some of the most talented and well respected attorneys in the field, tackling communications strategy around biotech, intellectual property, prominent litigation, major corporate transactions and pro bono initiatives. With Ms. Van Brunt at the helm, media coverage of the West Coast offices quadrupled over the course of two years.
Since that time, she has seized the opportunity to work as an independent agent and now provides marketing and public relations support for attorneys and other professionals throughout the region, specializing in helping small and mid-sized operations mark their territory in the crowded legal and business landscape that is Southern California and crafting media and messaging strategy around litigation and corporate dealings.
Ms. Van Brunt was born in Austria and raised throughout Europe and the U.S., making her fluent in German and French. She attended Brandeis University for her undergraduate education, where she majored in politics and minored in Journalism. She currently lives in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles with her husband, also an attorney, and their sons.
EVB Consulting
ver a decade of experience developing and implementing the communications and media outreach strategy for law firms, Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and small businesses.