Ms. Smith has been practicing law since 1986. Prior to opening her own practice, Ms. Smith worked for a large Florida law firm representing investors and developers in a variety of complex business and real estate transactions. Ms. Smith previously practiced in Wisconsin where she was a named partner in a boutique business law firm. Ms. Smith’s multifaceted experience and extensive work with business owners, developers and lenders affords to her clients the benefit of her broad understanding of the numerous aspects of a particular transaction. She provides her clients with legal counsel and practical advice in matters relating to commercial and residential real estate holdings, closely held businesses, landlord-tenant issues, estate and succession planning, and probate. She is admitted to practice in Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Education

• Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986, JD, Nominated: Duquesne Law Review

• The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 1982, BS, Business Administration, cum laude

Past Employment

• Broad and Cassel, Boca Raton, Florida

• Tuchscherer, Eckert, Smith and Ruffi, S.C., Wausau, Wisconsin

• Curtin and Heefner, Morrisville, Pennsylvania

• Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Kauffman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Memberships and Associations

• Florida Bar Association since 2003

• Authorized Agent for First American Title Insurance Company and Attorneys’ Title Fund Services.

• State Bar of Wisconsin since 1994

• Pennsylvania Bar Association since 1986

• Palm Beach County Bar Association

• American Bar Association.

• Member of the Greater Boynton Beach Chamber of Commerce

• Admitted to practice in all Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin State Courts, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Federal District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and Federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals