About
Mariel Smith’s primary practice is Labor & Employment Law. She has years of enjoy protecting organizations in proceedings and prelitigation investigations regarding the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Labor, Georgia Department of Labor, and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Her litigation enjoy in Employment and Labor Law consist of defending employers in salary and hour, discrimination and harassment claims. She additionally has experience in representing customers in mediation. She assists customers in place of work internal investigations and body of workers reductions.
Mrs. Smith in the beginning joined the Columbus workplace of HBS in 2011 after she labored for numerous years as a Superior Court Judicial law clerk and eventually as an Assistant District Lawyer, concerned with the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit. During her first few years at HBS, Mrs. Smith also served because the Associate Magistrate Judge for Muscogee County and occasionally stuffed in on the bench for Municipal Court, presiding over civil proceedings, crook first look hearings, truancy hearings, and warrant programs.
Mrs. Smith left HBS in 2017 to paintings as General Counsel for a Global Manufacturing Company and these days lower back to HBS in 2019. During her time as General Counsel, Mrs. Smith managed complex litigation, which include court cases involving products liability matters, patent infringement and alternate mystery theft, and also maintained the Company’s trademark and patent inventory. She won a sizeable amount of experience in negotiating, revising, and handling agreements inclusive of people with of the largest multinational retail corporations. She has additionally efficaciously negotiated global agreements as associated with Operations and Procurement in the Manufacturing Industry. Mrs. Smith has specific understanding in Consumer Law, particularly as associated with eCommerce, Business Compliance Consumer Privacy Laws, packaging, labeling.
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- Lawyer
Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
2011 - General Counsel
Masterbuilt Manufacturing, LLC
2017 - Associate Magistrate Judge
Magistrate Court of Muscogee County, Georgia
2013 - Assistant District Lawyer
Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit
2011 - Judicial Law Clerk
Chattahoocheed Judicial Circuit
2008
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Graduation year: 2004
