Andrew J. Smiley, of the New York law firm of Smiley & Smiley, LLP, works consistently to improve the public's understanding of the legal process.
The attorneys at Smiley & Smiley are regularly featured on television news broadcasts, newspapers and law journals. They frequently lend their legal expertise to provide legal commentary on high-profile issues in the news.
In addition, Smiley and his fellow partners have served in many leadership roles in state and local organizations:
What is not as widely known about Andrew J. Smiley is that he donates a significant amount of his professional time to educating new and current colleagues in the legal profession. A former adjunct instructor at Brooklyn Law School, Smiley has instructed national trial teams and law students in the areas of personal injury and trial law.
Smiley also spends a significant amount of his time giving continuing legal education (CLE) lectures to improve the legal skills of lawyers who are currently admitted to the bar. Smiley's courses can be viewed at Lawline Presentations. In addition, Smiley conducts live CLE lectures. He has previously done so for the New York County Lawyers Association and the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers.
In his highly rated legal education courses, Smiley lectures on a variety of areas such as:
The benefits of continuing legal education to the legal community and general public are numerous. Attorneys are required by most states to attend continuing legal education classes to maintain their proficiency in the law. As the law is constantly changing, continuing legal education classes ensure that an attorney is up to date in his or her understanding of the law.
In addition to helping attorneys maintain their proficiency, continuing legal education allows attorneys to expand their knowledge of other practice areas. This allows attorneys to represent their clients competently in a wide variety of areas. This saves the client money, as it is often not necessary to go to a different attorney for representation in areas outside the original attorney's specialty.
By maintaining competence in a given practice area, the attorney can avoid mistakes and deliver the most efficient service to the client, without having to engage in lengthy research in an unfamiliar legal area.
Due to his exceptional educational efforts and achievements, it is little surprise that Smiley was honored as a Super Lawyer in 2011. In order to achieve this high honor, an attorney must attain a high level of personal achievement, consistently demonstrate high ethical standards, and achieve a high level of recognition from their peers. Following a rigorous selection process, lawyers are nominated for the honor by their peers and are selected after peer evaluations are considered and independent research is conducted.
Smiley & Smiley, LLP, is a law firm in midtown Manhattan specializing in representing victims who have suffered catastrophic injury resulting from another's negligence. The firm also represents clients who have sustained serious injuries or wrongful death resulting from medical malpractice, construction accidents, automobile accidents and product liability.
The firm prides itself on client service and accessibility and can be reached 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Since its inception, the firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for its clients.
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As one of the country’s pre-eminent personal injury law firms, Smiley & Smiley LLP has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in combined compensation for clients since its founding more than 55 years ago.
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