Paul M. Smith is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Washington, DC office. At Jenner, he is the Chair of the Appellate & Supreme Court Practice and Co-Chair of the Election Law, and First Amendment Practices. Mr. Smith has argued fourteen Supreme Court cases, including most recently Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n, involving the First Amendment as applied to video games, and Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark gay rights case. He also represents various clients in trial and appellate cases involving commercial issues, the First Amendment, intellectual property, civil rights, and election law.
Mr. Smith graduated from Amherst College and Yale Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. He is a member of the ABA House of Delegates. He is also a member of, and the former Chair of, the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society. In 2010, the National Law Journal named him one of the 40 Most Influential Lawyers of the Past Decade. That same year, he received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities for his work promoting civil rights and civil liberties . In 2012 he received the D.C. Bar’s own Thurgood Marshall Award.
Paul Smith is the author of The Perry Litigation and the Changing Political Landscape for Marriage Equality.
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 