Product Liability Law Firm of the Year Germany

Timothy C. Smith Gate University Law Review

• University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, B.S.

Professional Memberships • Registered Foreign Lawyer, Hong Kong Law Society

Timothy C. Smith

Timothy C. Smith Managing Partner

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough International LLP

Mr. Smith is an international trial lawyer who has successfully litigated thousands of complex civil and criminal legal matters around the globe.

He has supervised and/or personally defended civil and criminal cases and claims in more than 70 countries, he has appeared pro hac vice in lawsuits venued in 22 of the United States, and he has taken or defended depositions in 35 states plus the District of Columbia. Mr. Smith's cases have involved a wide range of products and issues internationally, including motor vehicles, aircraft, firearms, power tools, professional negligence, real

estate and construction projects, vicarious liability, pharmaceuticals, food products, alien tort claims act matters, class actions, and large commercial disputes. Mr. Smith has extensive international arbitration and mediation experience, having participated in over 1,000 ADR proceedings around the world from all possible perspectives – as counsel, as a mediator, and even as a party. He also has broad and firsthand experience in front line catastrophe management and crisis communications, setting up and managing global litigation coordination programs and providing in-house, early stage legal advice focused on minimizing corporate and personal client preventative, regulatory and safety-related civil and criminal liability risks. Mr. Smith is the only American lawyer living abroad to be listed in the Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers (2009-10) and The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers (2010-11).

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Education: • Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D. Editor-in-Chief, Golden

Presentations & Publications • Featured speaker, “Automotive

• Registered Foreign Attorney- at-Law, Rechtsanwaltskammer Stuttgart, Germany

• Member, Bar of the District of Columbia

• Member, Bar of the United States Supreme Court

• Member, Bars of the United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern, and Central Districts of California

• Member, Bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits

• Member, State Bar of California • Director - Legal Affairs and Baden-Württemberg Chair, Republicans Abroad - Germany

• Member, British Institute of International Comparative Law’s Product Liability Form

• Sustaining Member, Product Liability Advisory Council

• Member, International Bar Association (Sections on Business Law and Legal Practice, Aviation Law, International Litigation, Products Liability, Practice Management & Technology and Civil Litigation Committees)

• Member, American Bar Association (Litigation, Tort & Insurance and International Law & Practice Sections)

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