About
S. Christie Smith IV is the senior accomplice of SmithBush, LLP, a local Louisiana law workplace at first established in 1911 to symbolize employees--and too regularly their widows and kids--who have been harmed through the burgeoning and unregulated timber industry inside the rural South. Mr. Smith s work nowadays is the present day extension of that century-antique practice, in a broader, litigation-primarily based platform. As a consumer recommend and attorney-in-the-trenches, he has spent his profession representing regular people within the combat for safer working conditions, reliable products, civil rights, and fair get admission to to the courts. His exercise makes a speciality of litigating wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases on account of defective products and tablets, vehicle collisions, bike accidents, industrial incidents, clinical errors, and Federal Tort Claims liability. On occasion, he defends individuals in the maximum critical varieties of crook fees or in cases wherein their Constitutional rights have been deliberately or systemically abridged. He has attempted cases across the Gulf South, from personal injury and harm claims to first diploma homicide and narcotics traficking. He is one of the few attorneys dually board-licensed in both civil and crook trial advocacy via the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification, has been identified inside the Top 50 Louisiana SuperLawyers List, holds an AV--Preeminent rating, the best score available from the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of Lawyers, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America. He is extensively-posted and often lectures on rising issues in trial and Constitutional law. › ›
Location
Videos
Legal Issues
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Car Accidents
- Constitutional Law
- Federal Tort Claims
Costs
- Free Consultation
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Payment With Credit Card
Visa, MsterCard, American Express -
Conditional Fees
33% to forty%; No Recovery, No Fee -
Retaines and Rates
Criminal Defense is billed hourly, generally at $250/hr for out-of-court docket work and $350/hr for in-court docket work. Sliding scale and capped fee preparations are feasible in some situations.
Certificates
National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
Board Certified, Criminal Trial Law
National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
Death Penalty, Lead Counsel
Louisiana Indigent Defense Assistance Board
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
- French: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions










Experience
- Senior Partner
SmithBush, LLP
2008 - Partner
The Smith Law Office, LLP
1997 - has membership
Smith, Ford, & Clark
1997
Educations

Graduation year: 1993

Graduation year: 1987