Mark W. Smith

Smith has spoken at Al Sharpton's National Action Network Conference along with former U.S. Attorney Zach Carter, and at MoneyExpo 2009.

In March 2009, Smith hosted a charity event for the Humane Society of New York at the Hudson Terrace in New York City. Stories about the event appeared on several websites dedicated to charity events and New York society.

Smith has tried jury and bench trials in state and federal court and represented clients in arbitrations, mediations, administrative law proceedings, and before governmental regulatory bodies. In 2008, Smith served as lead trial counsel in a precedent-setting $23 million jury trial in New York City on behalf of large private MRI medical practice against over 50 insurance companies. Many outlets covered the trial and its verdict and Smith appeared on the cover of The New York Law Journal and Law.com. As co-counsel in a federal jury trial, Smith won for his clients a million-dollar judgment in a precedent-setting case that a cover story in The New York Times proclaimed to be the largest of its kind in New York history. Smith represented a writer in a high-profile matter involving Tina Brown and the now-defunct Talk Miramax. Smith has represented clients before the United States Supreme Court having represented Texas state legislators there in the Washington Legal Foundation v. Phillips matter in 1988. The New York Times wrote a story about Smith's representation of two African-American women seeking to start a hair styling company in a highly publicized constitutional challenge to New York state economic regulations.

Smith is the founder of the Rockefeller Center-based law firm of Smith Valliere PLLC, which he founded in 2007. The national media calls Smith "one of the fastest rising legal stars in the country." Smith's courtroom and legal efforts have appeared on the covers of The New York Times, The Washington Times, Law.com, and The New York Law Journal as well as many other major media outlets.

Mark is a New York Times bestselling author of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Looney Left and Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (Random House-Crown Forum 2006).

Mark is a trial lawyer and conservative writer. He is the author of Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (2004), and of Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (2007).

During the 2004 presidential election, Smith appeared as an analyst on Dan Rather's CBS Nightly News, CNN, the FOX NEWS CHANNEL and the Dennis Miller Show on CNBC, and also served as a special election night analyst for WPIX (Channel 11) in New York City. Mark has appeared as a national radio personality in many major media markets having appeared in radio outlets such as Clear Channel Communications, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, WABC (New York), Fox News Radio, KRLA (Los Angeles), WRKO (Boston), America's Talk Satellite Network (Florida), WKAT (Miami), WIND (Chicago) KNTS (San Francisco), KSKY (Dallas), KLUP (San Antonio), KPIT (Pittsburgh), KNTP (Philadelphia), WITH (Baltimore) and Salem Communications.

As both a former Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, and former editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Mark has been recognized as a legal expert in several publications of experts including the Heritage Foundation's Policy Experts 2003: The Insider Guide to Public Policy Experts and Organizations, The Journalist's Guide to Legal Experts, and Policy Experts 2000: A Guide to Public Policy Experts.

Graduating from New York University in 1995, Smith is currently a trial lawyer in private practice in New York City. He has previously served as a public interest lawyer representing a variety of clients (such as a case in 1997 about hair-braiding regulations in New York), many of whom alleged infringements upon their Constitutional rights. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Kansas Law School, where he taught a course on American laws with respect to firearms ownership, and clerked for a federal judge.

After graduating from the New York University School of Law (J.D.) in 1995, Mark clerked for the Honorable D. Brook Bartlett, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Born in Maryland and raised in Vermont, played semi-professional baseball in the Northern League for the Saxtons River Pirates as an infielder. After spending three years at the University of Vermont, Smith went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Economics in 1992 from the University of South Carolina where he studied with Robert W. Clower, the former Managing Editor of the American Economics Review and Rhodes Scholar. Smith graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was on the All-American Debate Team.

Mark W. Smith (born September 4, 1968, in Cheverly, Maryland) is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, a former professor of law, and the founding partner of a Rockefeller Center-based law firm in New York City. Smith is a regular political and legal commentator in the national media and is a former semi-professional baseball player.