Ethan Smith

Ethan Smith

Associate
Ethan Smith represents policyholders, businesses, financial institutions, and investors in complex litigation and arbitration. He guides clients through all stages of litigation, including pre-litigation investigations, pre-trial discovery, motion practice, trials, and appeals.

Ethan has broad litigation experience spanning insurance disputes, commercial litigation, employment defense, criminal procedure, and securities litigation. He has successfully represented clients in recovering insurance proceeds, pursuing claims for breach of contract and fraud, and enforcing money judgments and arbitration awards. His experience also includes defending clients against regulatory and whistleblower claims; discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims; and commercial claims involving business torts, breach of contract, unfair competition, and defamation.

Ethan also maintains a pro bono practice representing veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including his successful representation of a United States Marine Corps veteran in an appeal before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

During law school, he served on the executive board of his school's Moot Court Honors Society and worked as a law clerk in the Labor Bureau of the New York State Office of the Attorney General.

Credentials

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., cum laude
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.S., summa cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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