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Allen L. Smith, Jr., born May 9,
1936, earned a B.S. degree in
Petroleum Engineering from
Louisiana State University in January,
1959, after which he was employed
as a drilling and production
engineer by the California Company
(now Chevron). He graduated third
in his class at LSU Law School in
May, 1964, having been elected to
the Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa
Phi Scholastic Honor Society and
having served on the LSU Law
Review in 1962 and 1963. Upon
graduating from law school in 1964,
he joined the firm in Lake Charles.
He is admitted to practice in all of
the state and federal district courts
of Louisiana, in the federal district
court in Beaumont, Texas, all of the
state appellate courts, the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and
the United States Supreme Court.
He is a member of the American,
Louisiana State, and Southwest
Louisiana Bar Associations (President,
1970). He is a member of the
International Association of Defense
Counsel, the Louisiana Association of
Defense Counsel (President, 1987-
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the Maritime Law Association of
the United States, and the Defense
Research Institute.
Allen Smith has been Guest
Lecturer at LSU Law School and is a
faculty member of the Louisiana
Association of Defense Counsel Trial
Advocacy Clinic. In recognition of
his ability as a trial advocate, he is
widely sought after for defense
counsel seminars and gives unsparingly
of his time in Continuing Legal
Education seminars on topics
including admiralty and maritime
law, oil field litigation (onshore and
offshore), examination and cross examination
of expert witnesses, and
presentation of demonstrative
evidence.
He is a Fellow of the American
College of Trial Lawyers. 2004
Recipient of Curtis R. Boisfontaine
Trial Advocacy Award from the
Louisiana Bar Foundation and
Louisiana State Bar Association.
He has been named in “The
Best Lawyers in America” in 2
categories since 1993.
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