LAW OFFICES OF JASON J. SMITH

Legal Counsel & Personal Client Services

Working to build and protect your wealth and assets over a lifetime, The Law Offices of Jason J. Smith LLC delivers knowledgable legal representation and premium care.





Mission and Vision Statement

The Law Offices of Jason J. Smith, LLC was founded with a singular vision: Clients deserve better. Our clients enjoy direct contact with their attorney and receive concierge-level services that are as flexible as they are methodical. Your matter will be considered fully from every angle, and we will strategize a course of action that best utilizes our attorneys' knowledge, secure technological capabilities, and cost-efficient approach to deliver a client experience like no other in our profession.

Our vision is to transform into a full-service general practice law firm led by exceptionally qualified attorneys with sterling educational pedigree who act in concert to deliver consistent, reliable legal services and highly exceed client expectations. Our attorneys will become their clients' "lawyers for life," acting as trusted advisors to multiple generations of successful families and business leaders.




[Jason J Smith]

Jason J. Smith, Managing Attorney

jsmith@lojjs.com ? 203.489.5501

Jason J. Smith founded the Firm in 2018 in order to deliver concierge-level service to an exclusive clientele in Greenwich and Manhattan, based on the guiding principal that clients deserve "better." His approach is shaped by close client relationships and well-rounded professional experience in trusts and estates, civil litigation and business consulting, and aims to consistently provide his clients with excellent, thoughtful, tailored legal services and earn his clients' trust, respect and continued business.

Jason was born and raised in Oklahoma and Texas and comes from a long line of hardworking farmers and ministers. He credits his loving and disciplined parents for helping him overcome congenital conditions-microtia and aural atresia, which left him with only one ear to hear with-to achieve his full potential.

Jason graduated from NYU's Stern School of Business Magna Cum Laude in Information Systems in just three years. After graduation he began a successful consulting career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in New York and San Francisco, where he traveled the world on assignments and solved unique business problems in the telecommunications, financial services and engineering industries. Caught up in the dot-com boom in San Francisco in the late 1990s, Jason joined Razorfish, a web development firm, and later founded his own internet marketing company, Ascension Communications. After running his business for three successful years, he enrolled at Yale Law School.

After graduating from Yale, Jason clerked for Chief Judge Robert N. Chatigny of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Jason thereafter joined Wiggin and Dana, where he started in the Litigation department and transitioned to Private Client Services. He then moved to Katten Muchin Rosenman's New York office and two years later became a partner at the law firm of Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, where he successfully built a Trusts and Estates Litigation practice group over the course of three and a half years prior to founding the Firm.

Hard work, discipline, thoughtfulness, preparation, and "can-do" values are a part of Jason's DNA. They explain how he becomes his clients' "attorney for life" and continues as a go-to resource well past the initial engagement. Jason publishes and is becoming a sought-after speaker at conferences and professional meetings. His publications and lectures cover a variety of topics, including lessons learned from the estate plans (or lack thereof) of the rich and famous, tips for avoiding and/or defending will contests, Surrogate's Court practice updates, advanced topics in fiduciary accounting, trust decanting, and ethical and practical tips for the modern trusts and estates practitioner.

Jason resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his husband Dominick and their two children, Leo and Alice.

For more information about Jason or to inquire about a publication topic or speaking engagement, please email info@lojjs.com.

Admissions:

? New York, Connecticut, and U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Education:

? J.D., Yale Law School, 2006.

? Served as managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

? B.S., magna cum laude, Information Systems, New York University, 1994

Publications:

? Keeping Wills Safe from Attack, Nassau Lawyer, Feb. 2018, at 10.

? Beware of Hidden Dangers When Taking on New Clients, Trusts & Estates, Feb. 2018, at 52 (coauthor).

? Blurred Lines: Navigating ethical obligations when a lawyer and client have an extraprofessional relationship, Trusts & Estates, Feb. 2015 (coauthor).

? Ding Dong, Is DOMA Dead?, Trusts & Estates, Jan. 2014, at 40 (coauthor).

? Do Same Sex Couples Have a Right to Marry? The State of the Conversation Today, 17 Yale J.L. & Feminism 65 (2005) (coauthor).

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Greenwich,	3

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Family Law	1
Litigation - General (consumer)	1
Trusts and Estates	2