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Timothy Smith, managing partner at CBM International Lawyers LLP, is an international trial lawyer who focuses his litigation practice on complex, cross-border civil and criminal legal matters around the globe. He has supervised and/or personally defended civil and criminal cases and claims in more than 65 countries, has appeared pro hac vice in lawsuits venued in 22 states in the United States, and he has taken or defended depositions in 35 states in the United 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, RICO litigation, and large commercial disputes. He 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.
Mr. Smith also has broad, first-hand 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. A native English speaker who is fluent in German and English, Mr. Smith is the only American lawyer living abroad to be listed in the International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers (2010) and the Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers (2009). He received his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law and his B.S. from the University of Oregon.
