About Robert E. Smith

Robert E. Smith has more than 40 years of experience litigating complex commercial and business matters of all kinds.

Experience is knowledge sharpened by reality

Robert represents clients in the areas of securities, accountants' liability, shareholder suits, real estate, environmental and product liability.

Practice Focus

  • Corporate governance
  • Securities litigation and enforcement
  • Appellate and trial court litigation and arbitration
  • Public and private funds
  • Product and tort liability litigation
  • Financial services litigation
  • Fiduciary litigation

Representative Experience

  • Represented engineered product manufacturer in the US Supreme Court in a case that established a significant product liability precedent. Represented client through two jury trials and appeals to the Second Circuit in the successful defense of product liability claims originally exceeding $800 million relating to the manufacture and operation of generators at a nuclear power plant.

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Industries
Education
  • Harvard Law School, LLB
  • Dartmouth College, AB, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
  • New York
Court Admissions
  • US Supreme Court
  • US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • US District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • US District Court, Southern District of New York
Community Involvements
  • American Bar Association
  • Federal Bar Council
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • New York State Bar Association
Recognitions
  • Best Lawyers in America
    Commercial Litigation | Litigation - Environmental | Litigation - Real Estate, 2003–2020
  • Super Lawyers
    New York, 2006–2012