Justice Lawyers

Kenneth W. Smith

Experience

Of counsel to Justice Lawyers, Pensacola, FL, September 2004 to present.

Speaker (Topic: Seroquel and Diabetes), Harris-Martin Pharmaceutical & Human Tissue Litigation conference, Charleston, SC, June 19-30, 2006.

Currently Co-Lead Counsel, Atypical Antipsychotic Litigation, Wilmington, DE.

Since 1999 Mr. Smith has handled complex product liability litigation involving Fen-phen, PPA, other prescription and over-the-counter drugs, vaccines, and nutritional supplements, nationwide mass torts, discovery, depositions, motions practice, brief-writing, second chair at trials.

Prior to that, from 1979-1998, Mr. Smith handled civil and criminal trials in state and federal courts, and cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury, criminal defense, and Federal Tort Claims. In 1989 Mr. Smith obtained a $1.25 million medical malpractice verdict. Other representative matters include: swimming pool drowning (E.D.Va. 1996) (confidential settlement), HIV-contaminated blood (DC 1995) (confidential settlement), vaccine injury (E.D.Va. 1995) (confidential settlement), $125,000 jury verdict in slip-and-fall case (Fairfax County 1994), $100,000 medical malpractice judgment against Bureau of Prisons (D.C. 1993), auto accident verdict $280,000 (E.D.Va. 1984). Represented 911 victim pro bono through Trial Lawyers Care. Member pro bono panel for the District Court of D.C.

1970 - 1974 LT(jg) U.S.N., Vietnam Service Ribbon (3)

Education

J.D., 1977, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, top half of class, LSAT score 730.
1974, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA, 6 semester hours of accounting
B.A., 1970, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, English Literature, NROTC scholarship

Qualifications

Admitted: FL (1977), VA (1979), DC (1995), MS (2002); 4th Cir. (1979), U.S. Ct. Claims (2001), U.S. District Court for Middle District of Florida 2006).
Member: American Association for Justice since 1983, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Roscoe Pound Foundation; Advocate, American College of Trial Advocacy, Metropolitan D.C. Trial Lawyers Association, Alexandria Virginia Bar Association.

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