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S. Christie Smith IV | Leesville Accident & Injury Lawyer | Louisiana

S. Christie Smith IV

S. Christie Smith IV

SmihBush, LLP

Accident & Injury, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Criminal, White Collar Crime

Board Certified Civil and Criminal Trial Law, National Board of Legal Specialty Certification

Experience: 29 years
Language(s): English, French

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About S.

S. Christie Smith IV is the senior partner of SmithBush, LLP, a regional Louisiana law firm originally established in 1911 to represent laborers--and too often their widows and children--who were harmed by the burgeoning and unregulated timber industry in the rural South.

Mr. Smith's work today is the modern extension of that century-old practice, in a broader, litigation-based platform.  As a consumer advocate and lawyer-in-the-trenches, he has spent his career representing regular people in the fight for safer working conditions, reliable products, civil rights, and fair access to the courts.  His practice focuses on litigating wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases resulting from defective products and drugs, automobile collisions, motorcycle accidents, industrial incidents, medical errors, and Federal Tort Claims liability.  On occasion, he defends individuals in the most serious types of criminal charges or in cases where their Constitutional rights have been intentionally or systemically abridged.  He has tried cases across the Gulf South, from personal injury and damage claims to first degree murder and narcotics traficking.

He is one of the few lawyers dually board-certified in civil and criminal trial advocacy by the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification, has been recognized in the "Top 50 Louisiana SuperLawyers" List, and holds an "AV--Preeminent" rating, the highest rating available from the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of Attorneys. He is widely-published and frequently lectures on emerging issues in trial and Constitutional law.

Hourly Rates: $225/hr out-of-court, $350/hr in-court Contingency: 33% to 40%

Experience

Senior Partner

SmithBush, LLP

Present

Leesville, LA

Admission

Verified Washington, DC

2008

Verified LA

1997

Education

Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University

J.D.

1996

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Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • American Association for Justice, National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, Louisiana Association for Justice, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
Honors / Awards
  • Top 50 Louisiana Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers®, Thomson Reuters; Best Lawyers in America, Woodward White Publishing; "100 Top Trial Lawyers", The National Trial Lawyers; AVPre-eminent Legal Ability Rating, Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory; Million Dollar Advocates' Forum

Founded 1911

SmihBush, LLP Highlights

Car Accident, Malpractice, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Felony

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Languages: English, French
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