Ashley Snell Smith
Ashley Snell Smith is a partner whose practice primarily focuses on commercial automobile, premises liability, and construction accident cases involving personal injuries, property damage, and wrongful death.
Ashley Snell Smith PARTNER
Ashley Snell Smith is partner whose practice primarily focuses on commercial automobile, premises liability, and construction accident cases involving personal injuries, property damage, and wrongful death.
About Ashley
EXPERIENCE
Ashley Snell Smith is a partner whose practice primarily focuses on commercial automobile, premises liability, and construction accident cases involving personal injuries, property damage, and wrongful death. Specifically, Ms. Smith has experience defending long-haul truck drivers and trucking companies in cases involving compliance with both DOT and FMCSA regulations, as well as property owners, general contractors, and subcontractors in a wide range of premises liability and construction defect claims.
On behalf of her clients, Ms. Smith has successfully argued and obtained a summary judgment dismissing all claims with prejudice, attended multiple mediations leading to favorable settlements, argued and obtained favorable Court rulings on discovery and pre-trial matters, and deposed expert and fact witnesses over a wide range of topics.
Prior to defending cases on behalf of clients, Ms. Smith worked for a personal injury firm where she represented clients involved in motor vehicle accidents and contract disputes. While there, Ms. Smith successfully litigated several multi-million dollar ERISA claims brought on behalf of ambulatory surgical centers within in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
ARTICLES
- New IRA Rules Wreak Havoc on Taxable Income & Leave Inherited IRAs at the Mercy of Bankruptcy Creditors 7 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. 627 (2015), Probate & Property Magazine, Vol. 38, Jan./Feb. 2016
