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THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL
December 17, 2001
WOMEN AT THE TOP
Fifty litigators who succeed in and out of the courthouse
SUZELLE M. SMITH
Partner at Los Angeles’ Howarth & Smith |
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Suzelle M. Smith is a plaintiffs’ attorney who has won substantial
settlements and verdicts against the National Football League, Southern
California Edison, the city of Irvine, Calif., General Electric Co. and
Sears Roebuck & Co. This summer, Smith won a $16.3 million verdict against
Cotter Corp. on behalf of 25 plaintiffs who were contending that Cotter’s
uranium mill poisoned their community; that judgment was increased to $43.3
million in November, through the addition of prejudgment interest and the
cost of medical monitoring. For several years, Smith also represented
defendants in high-profile litigations. She has returned to a
plaintiffs’-only practice and is currently representing the
government of the Marshall Islands in a major lawsuit filed against the
tobacco industry that will likely be the first international tobacco case to
be tried. |
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