Louis Smith

Practice Areas

Litigation

Class Action Litigation

Financial Services Litigation

Appeals & Legal Issues

Career

Louis Smith represents banks, financial services companies, insurance companies and other businesses in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including consumer class actions and commercial contract disputes. He has a national litigation practice and has handled matters in over 25 states. Lou has wide-ranging appellate experience, including arguments before the New Jersey Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals and United States Courts of Appeals throughout the country.

Concentrations:

Complex commercial litigation

Class actions

Appellate

Financial services litigation

Professional Memberships

Member, Alumni Steering Committee, Rutgers Law School Center for Corporate Law and Governance

Guest Lecturer, Rutgers Law School, Evidence

Member, The Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey

Member, New Jersey State Bar Association; Member, Class Actions Committee

Member, Morris County Bar Association

Member, Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit

Member, American Bar Association; Former Co-chair, Banking and Lender Liability Litigation Subcommittee

Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Former Member, The Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2019-2022

Personal

Education

J.D., with high honors, Rutgers School of Law - Newark, 1993; Research editor, Rutgers Law Review; Order of the Coif

B.A., with honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990

Clerkships

Hon. Gary S. Stein, Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1994-1995