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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Global leader of embedded, multidisciplinary team of lawyers and engineers providing upper management and development engineers with strategic advice on product safety, regulatory affairs and compliance, and risk management. Responsible for worldwide product safety and regulatory compliance in development, safety messaging and campaigns, regulatory and emissions compliance, emerging tech deployment, safety policy implementation, risk assessment and research initiatives, and the evaluation of all safety-critical systems.

Sacramento, California

Active U.S. and international litigation, product safety, regulatory compliance, investigations and data privacy practice.

Stuttgart, Germany / Beijing, Shanghai & Hong Kong, China / Istanbul, Turkey

Founded boutique law firm abroad specializing in cross-border litigation management, government investigations, regulatory compliance work, recall management, and data protection / privacy.International Litigation Defense - handled more than 10,000 complex civil and criminal cases in 85 countries, helping U.S. companies defend litigation abroad, helping non-U.S. companies handle large-scale physical and electronic discovery demands in American courts, and providing clients with design-stage, “lessons learned” advice and training to in-house product developers. Work involved motor vehicles and components, power tools, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food products, brand protection and alleged human rights violations. Acted as international coordination counsel for several multinational product makers.Global Regulatory Compliance, Recall Management & Cost Recovery – Helped clients develop effective systems to meet global homologation and regulatory compliance requirements. Planned and ran dozens of worldwide recall campaigns. Helped prosecute and defend against numerous supplier cost recovery actions. Heavy catastrophe management and crisis communication work. Deep experience in defending government regulatory compliance investigations.Data Protection & Data Privacy Compliance – Successfully managed dozens of large data review projects involving scalable teams of professionals responsible for sorting and ultimately transferring in a GDPR-compliant manner millions of document and terabytes of electronically-stored information from the the EU.Extensive international business management and tax experience managing offices over the years in four countries with up to 30 full-time, multi-cultural, multi-lingual professional employees.[Business name changed over the years due to different foreign practice affiliations and regulations - Lungershausen & Smith, Smith & Partners, CBM International Lawyers and Smith Legal Group]

San Francisco, California

Active U.S. national trial defense practice. Developed and co-managed a very successful U.S. product liability coordination counsel program for a foreign multinational product maker. Appeared pro hac vice in individual and class-action lawsuits venued in 28 states of the United States. Taken or defended technical, medical and board-level “apex” management depositions in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and 35 American states plus the District of Columbia. Personally tried 5 high-exposure American jury trials to verdict.

Los Angeles, San Francisco & Walnut Creek, California

Active regional and U.S. national trial defense practice. Worked in very successful U.S. national product liability coordination counsel programs for several multinational product makers and insurance carriers. Appeared pro hac vice in lawsuits venued across the United States. Personally tried 20 American jury trials to verdict. Work involved a wide-range of products, sectors and issues including motor vehicles, aircraft, firearms, power tools, real estate, professional negligence, and food products. Hired as Summer Associate in 1991, thereafter worked part- or full-time at the firm year-round until full bar admission in 1993.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.)

Doctor Of Law - Jd, (Editor-In-Chief - Law Review)