Biography

Lenore C. Smith is an AV-rated appellate attorney with 16 years' experience handling state and federal civil appeals in a variety of substantive areas, including product liability, personal injury, immigration, contracts, securities, arbitration, workers’ compensation, trusts and estates, admiralty, medical malpractice, civil conspiracy, real estate and charitable corporations.

Affiliations, Activities and Accomplishments

Ms. Smith is a member of the Florida Bar (1990), and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1991) and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1990). She is a contributor to Sedgwick’s Appellate Strategist blog.

She served as a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge Chris McAliley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Representative Matters

• Carnival Corp. v. Carlisle, 953 So. 2d 461 (Fla. 2007)
• School Board of Miami-Dade County v. King, 940 So. 2d 593 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006)
• Weg Industrias, S.A. v. Compania de Seguros Generales Granai, 937 So. 2d 248 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006)
• F.L.M. v. Department of Children and Families, 912 So. 2d 1264 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005)
• Braswell v. Braswell, 890 So. 2d 379 (Fla. 3d DCA 2004)
• BDO Seidman v. British Car Auctions, Inc., 789 So. 2d 1019 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001)
• Kammer v. Hurley, 765 So. 2d 975 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)
• American Red Cross v. Palm Beach Blood Bank, Inc., 143 F.3d 1407 (11th Cir. 1998)
• Raimi v. Furlong, 702 So. 2d 1273 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997)
• Martin v. Lenahan, 658 So. 2d 119 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995)
• Kraft v. Rosenblum, 635 So. 2d 106 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994)