Bio
Kelly Smith concentrates her practice on commercial litigation and labor and employment law.
Education
- University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2015)
- Order of the Coif
- Executive Comments Editor, San Diego Law Review
- Vice President, Student Bar Association
- CALI Awards for Excellence in Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Civil Rights Theories, Legal Drafting, and Community Property
- University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., Psychology, 2012)
Representative Presentations and Publications
- "Caution: Pay-When-Paid Clauses Are a Danger Zone in California," Co-Author, Under Construction (December 2015)
Other Professional Experience
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Law Clerk to the Hon. John A. Houston
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Law Clerk to the Hon. David H. Bartick
- Snell & Wilmer, Summer Associate (2014), Associate (2015)
- United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, Law Clerk, General Crimes Division (2014)
- California Attorney General’s Office, Law Clerk, Correctional Writs and Appeals Division (2013)
- University of San Diego School of Law, Research Assistant to Roy Brooks (2013)
- Superior Court of Orange County, Judicial Extern to The Hon. J. Kimberly Menninger (2013)
- University of California, Los Angeles, Christensen Research Lab, Research Assistant (2011-2012)
- Orange County Office of the District Attorney, Legal Intern (2011)
- Orange County Office of the Public Defender, Legal Intern (2010)
Bar Admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of California
- United States District Court, All Districts of California