Smith has litigation experience in product liability, vehicular accident, medical, pharmacy and legal malpractice, business, real estate, construction, city and municipal liability and business law cases in state and federal courts. He has spoken on areas of pharmacy, legal malpractice and medical malpractice law, discovery and trial practice at various legal seminars. Smith has presented positions on legislative matters to the Kansas Legislature. He is past chairman of the Legislation Committee of United States Swimming and past chairman of Missouri Valley Swimming. He served on the board of directors and the advisory board of Florence Crittenton Services of Topeka.

Smith mediates civil cases in state and federal courts in Kansas and Missouri. He has more than 40 years’ litigation experience in products liability, vehicular accident, medical, pharmacy and legal malpractice, business, real estate, construction, municipal liability and business cases in state and federal courts. Smith has been recognized since 1991 as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of personal injury litigation. He has lectured in the areas of pharmacy, legal malpractice and medical malpractice law, discovery and trial practice at various legal seminars.

AV® - Preeminent Rated. (AV® - Preeminent™ is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.)

University of Kansas, B.A. (Mathematics) (1960)
University of Kansas, J.D. (1963)
University of Kansas Law Review

BAR ADMISSIONS

Kansas (1963)
Missouri (1992)
U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1963)
U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1999)
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (1967)
U.S. Supreme Court (1972)

• Recognized as Super Lawyer in Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers
• Kansas Bar Association
  • Board of Governors (1986-1992)
  • Past Chairman, Professional Relations Committee
  • Past Chairman, Litigation Section
  • Past Chairman, Medical-Legal, Health Care Provider,
  • Professional Relations Committee
  • Nominating Committee
• American Bar Association
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• Johnson County Bar Association
• Topeka Bar Association
  • Past Chairman, Medical Legal Committee
• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas Association of Defense Counsel
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• Defense Research Institute
• American Society for Pharmacy Law
• American Judicature Society
  • Board of Directors (1984-1988)
• American Board of Trial Advocates
  • President, Kansas Chapter (1989-90)
• Association of Attorney Mediators
• Listed in “Best Lawyers in America”
• Listed in “Who’s Who in American Law”
• Kansas College of Trial Advocacy (Faculty)
• Kansas Bar Foundation (Fellow)

MEDIATOR CERTIFICATION

Kansas Supreme Court, Core Mediation and Civil Mediation
Missouri Bar Approved Dispute Resolution Neutral Mediator

• Speaker: Pharmacy Liability, Thinking Outside the Box in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Missouri Bar Continuing Legal Education seminar, July 11, 2008.
• Pharmacists Duty to Inform Patient or Physician of Warnings in Package Insert, 1991 PHARMACY LAW ANNUAL 39