Parker Bentley Smith | Attorney

Parker Bentley Smith

Parker Bentley Smith

Transportation & Shipping, Wills & Probate, Family Law, Medical Malpractice, General Practice, Corporate, Professional Malpractice, Premises Liability, Ethics, Energy

Language(s): English

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About Parker

Parker B. Smith has been practicing law since 1969 in Maryland, and 1987 in Florida. He is admitted to all State and Federal Courts in Maryland and Florida, and to the Fourth and Eleventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court He has a Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory highest ability and ethical rating of AV since 1974. He has tried many jury and judge trials in the areas of commercial litigation, personal injury (plaintiff and defendant), criminal defense (misdemeanors to capital cases), medical malpractice (plaintiff and defendant), admiralty (collision, property damage, personal injury), and estate litigation. He was a Federal Prosecutor, 1974-1976, and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1976-1979. He was Chief Prosecutor in a mail fraud investigation involving attorneys and physicians, and Chief Defense Counsel for NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, in medical malpractice cases against NIH while he was associated with the U.S. Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland.

In private practice, Mr. Smith was an associate of Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Maryland; a managing partner in the Baltimore firm of Smith & Langhoff, 1976-1981; of counsel to the Jacksonville, Florida firm of Martin Ade Birchfield & Mickler, 1986-1988; managing partner in the Ponte Vedra, Florida firm of Smith, Kearsey, 1989-1993; and shareholder in Parker B. Smith, P.A., Ponte Vedra, Florida, 1993-2000, and Destin, Florida, 2000-present.

Mr. Smith consistently enjoys the highest peer reviews and client satisfaction ratings. He is an arbitrator and licensed Florida real estate agent.

Education

Dartmouth College

Parker B Smith PA Highlights

Medical Malpractice, Car Accident, Personal Injury, Criminal, Litigation

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Languages: English