He was lead counsel in representing commercial fishermen in 2010, whose livelihoods continue to be devastated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and won the second largest verdict against an oil company in 2001 for exposing the cancer-causing soil contamination left behind in Harvey, Louisiana by ExxonMobil. Smith has been a campaign contributor to a litany of Democratic candidates over the years including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mary Landrieu and Al Franken and is heavy contributor to the left leaning American Association for Justice PAC whose stated purpose is "preserving the civil justice system." Smith centered press releases in its records. Interestingly Louisiana Truth PAC paid New Orleans based public relations firm Cheron Brylski 3500.00. Smith continued to fund Louisiana Truth PAC as late as 2017 with a 7,000 contribution. Cedric Richmond went on to win that race and is now the powerful chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. While Smith initially demurred on whether he funded Louisiana Truth PAC showed contributions to Louisiana Truth PAC from Smith in excess of 111,000 dollars. Smith contributed 4,800 to Lafonta's campaign.
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A third candidate State Representative and New Orleans trial lawyer Juan LaFonta appeared to the beneficiary of Louisiana Truth PAC efforts. Louisiana Truth PAC attacked then State Representative Cedric Richmond as he sought to unseat Republican Joseph Cao. Smith registered Louisiana Truth PAC with the Federal Election Commission. ExxonMobil appealed the verdict, securing a reduction in the punitive award, but was still ordered to pay hundreds of millions in damages. In 2001, Smith was lead counsel in an oilfield radiation case that resulted in a verdict of $1.056 billion against ExxonMobil for contaminating private property it leased from the Grefer family in Harvey, Louisiana. Smith and Michael Stag began working together in 1997 and later established the firm SmithStag, focusing on plaintiff-oriented, environmental and toxic tort cases. In 1994, Smith teamed with Andrew Sacks to form Sacks & Smith, a New Orleans-based plaintiff law firm. Chevron ultimately settled the case for an undisclosed amount of money in what remains one of the longest-running jury trials in Mississippi history. Investigators from the Mississippi Division of Radiological Health found radiation from radium on the Street property 500 times the natural level. Allegedly, for years, Chevron had sent radioactive oilfield pipe to Street, Inc., for cleaning –– without informing the owners that the pipe contained radioactive material. Chevron pitted the family owners of a pipe-yard located in rural southeastern Mississippi against a multinational oil conglomerate. In 1992, Smith litigated against Chevron. Smith was suspended from practicing law by the Louisiana State Supreme Court for a period of 3 months in 2018. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice. Smith pledged 1.5 million to Loyola's Law School in 2008 and they renamed their law clinic the Stuart H. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1986.
from Louisiana State University and his J.D. Smith dropped out of school at 15, earning his GED years later.
Smith was one of the lead legal strategists in on-going national litigation regarding the nation's drug-industry manufactured opioid crisis, having led the nation-wide effort to have the crisis’ impact on opioid-dependent born children recognized as a special class deserving of dedicated, long-term response from those who caused the epidemic in the United States. Smith practiced law for more than 25 years, litigating against oil companies and other energy-related corporations for damages associated with radioactive oilfield waste. Smith (born September 15, 1960, died May 20, 2022) was a controversial practicing plaintiff attorney licensed in Louisiana.
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