Jeffrey R. Smith - San Francisco, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, 2006
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1998
    B.S.
    Major: Graphic Design and Journalism

Current Employment Position(s)

• Managing Partner

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, "Demonstrative Evidence in the 21st Century", Regional TLA Conference, Olympic Valley, CA, 2009
  
• Speaker, "Jill and Ned's Excellent Constitutional Convention Adventure", Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court, San Francisco, 2009
  
• Speaker, "The Effective Use of Visual Evidence in Litigation", Bar Association of San Francisco, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust - Litigation Subsection, San Francisco, 2010
  
• Speaker, "An Immigration Carol", Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court, San Francisco, 2010
  
• Speaker, "Technology in Trial, PowerPoint, Trial Director and Beyond", San Francisco Trial Lawyer Association, 2010
  
• Speaker, "Suing Public Entities", Santa Clara Trial Lawyers Association Program, San Jose, 2011
  
• Speaker, "Strategies for Sports and Recreation Cases", San Francisco Trial Lawyer Association, 2011
  
• Speaker, "Communication: Clients, Opposing Counsel, and the Boss," Berkeley Law: Boalt Advocates Alumni, San Francisco, 2011
  
• Speaker, "Brown v. Plata: Judicial Activism or Cruel and Unusual Punishment?", Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court-2012
  
• Speaker, “Tech Tools at Mediation,” San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, 2012
  
• Speaker, “Using Technology in Mediation,” Consumer Attorneys of California, 2012.

Published Works

Articles

• The Unlevel Playing Field: Releases, Waivers & Assumption of Risk in Sports Premises Cases, written for the Premises Seminar of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, November 2007
  
• California Uninsured Motorist Practice, (Co-Author) 2009-2011, Continuing Education of the Bar, Chapter 2
  
• Other Accidents: relevance and admissibility, Advocate Magazine , March, 2012
  
• Other Accidents: relevance and admissibility, Plaintiff Magazine , March, 2012
  

Bar Admissions

• California, 2006

Other Affiliations

• San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association
• Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)
• American Association of Justice (AAJ)