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About Perry Smith
Perry
Smith was named one of Southern
California’s best young
lawyers in the 2005 and 2006
Southern California Super Lawyers – Rising
Stars Editions. This
honor is only provided to the
top 2.5 percent of young attorneys. For
more information, click here.
Mr. Smith is a partner in the
law firm of Barritt Smith LLP
and has obtained high dollar
results for employees in wrongful
termination, retaliation, unpaid
wages, discrimination and other
kinds of cases against employers. These
results have often been obtained
as settlements without significant
litigation. However, when
necessary, Mr. Smith will take
a case all the way through the
jury trial process. In
2005, Mr. Smith obtained a substantial
jury verdict in a wrongful termination
case on behalf of an employee
who was terminated for making
legally-protected complaints. The
jury awarded substantial punitive
damages to Mr. Smith’s
client. In 2006, Mr. Smith
prevailed in a jury trial on
behalf of three individuals who
were subjected to unlawful pay
practices.
Mr. Smith has a distinguished
academic background, having received
his law degree, cum laude,
from the University of Georgia
School of Law, which is consistently
ranked as one of the top law
schools in the country. In
law school, Mr. Smith obtained
a scholarship for ranking in
the top ten percent of his first
year class and was selected,
based on his academic performance
and writing skills, to serve
as a General and Articles Editor
of the Georgia Law Review – the
University’s most respected
legal publication.
Mr. Smith has lectured on employment
law subjects including wrongful
termination, discrimination and
harassment, employee privacy
issues and wage and hour law,
among other topics. Mr. Smith
has also written articles on
employment law issues for various
publications.
Mr. Smith is experienced in representing
employers, which has assisted
him greatly in his representation
of employees. Mr. Smith
started his career at the well-respected
firm of Payne & Fears LLP
in Irvine, California, where
he represented employers in labor
and employment litigation.
In addition to his law practice,
Mr. Smith is a mediator of employment-related
disputes serving on the Alternative
Dispute Resolution panel of the
Los Angeles County Superior Court. For
more information about Mr. Smith's
mediation practice see smithmediation.com
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