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Paul March Smith (born 1955) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 attorney
Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
 who has argued many important cases, most notably Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas, Case citation , was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States case. In the 6-3 ruling, the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Statess struck down the sodomy law in Texas....
. He is currently a partner at Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block

Jenner & Block is a U.S. law firm with offices in Chicago, Illinois, New York, and Washington, DC. Over 450 attorneys serve a wide range of clients in corporate litigation, business transactions, and in the public sector....
’s Washington, DC office and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

h graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College
Amherst College

Amherst College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975....
 in 1976 and received his law degree from Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
 in 1979, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal
Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School....
.

r law school, Smith was a law clerk
Law clerk

A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person who provides assistance to a judge in Legal research issues before the court and in writing Legal opinion....
 to Judge James L.






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Paul March Smith (born 1955) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 attorney
Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
 who has argued many important cases, most notably Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas, Case citation , was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States case. In the 6-3 ruling, the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Statess struck down the sodomy law in Texas....
. He is currently a partner at Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block

Jenner & Block is a U.S. law firm with offices in Chicago, Illinois, New York, and Washington, DC. Over 450 attorneys serve a wide range of clients in corporate litigation, business transactions, and in the public sector....
’s Washington, DC office and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department.

Education

Smith graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College
Amherst College

Amherst College is a private university Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821, it is the third oldest college in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and has been coeducational since 1975....
 in 1976 and received his law degree from Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
 in 1979, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal
Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School....
.

Professional career

After law school, Smith was a law clerk
Law clerk

A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person who provides assistance to a judge in Legal research issues before the court and in writing Legal opinion....
 to Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, and the court has appellate jurisdiction over the United States district court in the following United States federal judicial district:...
. From 1980-81, Smith was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. Smith practiced law for 13 years in Washington, DC with the firms of Onek, Klein & Farr and Klein, Farr, Smith & Taranto.

He had an active Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 practice, including oral arguments in twelve Supreme Court cases. These arguments have included LULAC v. Perry and Vieth v. Jubelirer
Vieth v. Jubelirer

Vieth v. Jubelirer, case citation , was a United States Supreme Court case. The ruling was significant in the area of partisan redistricting and political gerrymandering....
, two congressional
United States Congress

The United States Congress is the Bicameralism legislature of the Federal government of the United States of the United States of America, consisting of two houses, the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
 redistricting cases, Lawrence v. Texas
Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas, Case citation , was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States case. In the 6-3 ruling, the List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Statess struck down the sodomy law in Texas....
, involving the constitutionality of the Texas sodomy statute, United States v. American Library Association
United States v. American Library Association

United States v. American Library Association, Case citation , was a decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that the United States Congress has the authority to require public schools and libraries receiving e-rate discounts to install web filtering software as a condition of receiving federal funding....
, involving a First Amendment challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act
Children's Internet Protection Act

The Children's Internet Protection Act is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress has proposed in an attempt to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online....
 and Mathias v. WorldCom (2001), dealing with the Eleventh Amendment immunity of state commissions. His first argument was in Celotex Corp. v. Catrett
Celotex Corp. v. Catrett

Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Case citation , was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, written by then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist....
 in 1986. Smith also worked extensively on several other First Amendment cases in the Supreme Court, involving issues ranging from commercial speech to defamation to “adult” speech on the Internet
Internet

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.

Bar membership

Smith was admitted to the bar in DC
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 (on December 18, 1981), Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
 (on June 3, 1988) and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 (in 2006).

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