Mark W. Smith

Born in Maryland and raised in Vermont, played semi-professional baseball in the Northern League for the Saxtons River Pirates as an infielder. After spending three years at the University of Vermont, Smith went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Economics in 1992 from the University of South Carolina where he studied with Robert W. Clower, the former Managing Editor of the American Economics Review and Rhodes Scholar.{{cite web |url=http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/clower/ |title=Inventory of the Robert W. Clower Papers |publisher=Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University}}

After graduating from the New York University School of Law (J.D.) in 1995, Smith clerked for D. Brook Bartlett, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.{{citation needed |date=April 2025}}

Upon the completion of his clerkship, Smith joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. Smith co-founded the law firm of Smith Valliere PLLC, in 2007.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

In 2008, Smith served as lead trial counsel in a jury trial in New York City on behalf of large private MRI medical practice against over 50 insurance companies. Many outlets covered the trial and its verdict and Smith appeared on the cover of New York Law Journal and Law.com.{{cite web|first=Daniel|last=Wise|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202423477960) |title=New York Law Journal "Jury Rejects Claims of $23 Million in Unusual No-Fault Case," Daniel Wise, New York Law Journal, August 4, 2008 |publisher=Law.com |date=August 4, 2008 |access-date=November 20, 2011}} As co-counsel in a federal jury trial, Smith won for his clients a million-dollar judgment in a case that a cover story in the New York Times proclaimed to be the largest of its kind in New York history.{{cite web|last=Weiser |first=Benjamin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/nyregion/a-co-op-must-pay-640000-for-denying-sublet-to-black.html) |title="A Co-op Must Pay $640,000 for Denying Sublet to Black," New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=May 14, 1997 |access-date=November 20, 2011}}

The press has discussed Smith and his representation of various writers.

{{cite web|last=Gernstetter |first=Blake |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/lunch/lunch_peggy_siegal_sharon_bush_the_other_women_94132.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129030416/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/lunch/lunch_peggy_siegal_sharon_bush_the_other_women_94132.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |title=)Media Bistro.com's The Fish Bowl |publisher=Mediabistro.com |date=September 10, 2008 |access-date=November 20, 2011 }}

Smith was profiled in Avenue magazine in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.avenuemagazine-digital.com/avenuemagazine/200903/?pg=67) |title=Avenue Magazine |publisher=Avenuemagazine-digital.com |access-date=November 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007044411/http://www.avenuemagazine-digital.com/avenuemagazine/200903/?pg=67%29 |archive-date=October 7, 2011 }}

As co-counsel in a federal jury trial, he obtained a jury verdict for his client that The New York Times proclaimed as perhaps the largest in New York history of its kind.{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E1D61F39F937A25756C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all) |title=Benjamin Weiser, The |work=New York Times |date=May 14, 1997 |access-date=November 20, 2011}}

Mark is a New York Times bestselling author of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Looney Left and Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts (Random House-Crown Forum 2006).{{cite book|last=Smith |first=Mark W. |title=Amazon |date=March 24, 2006 |publisher=Regnery |isbn=0895260271 }}{{cite book|last=Jackson |first=Gregg |title=Amazon |date=December 11, 2007 |publisher=Regnery |isbn=978-1596980495 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000P83MWU |title=Amazon |publisher=Amazon |date=September 9, 2009 |access-date=November 20, 2011}}

Smith has appeared as a national radio personality in many major media markets having appeared in radio outlets such as Clear Channel Communications, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, WABC (New York), Fox News Radio, KRLA (Los Angeles), WRKO (Boston), America's Talk Satellite Network (Florida), WKAT (Miami), WIND (Chicago) KNTS (San Francisco), KSKY (Dallas), KLUP (San Antonio), KPIT (Pittsburgh), KNTP (Philadelphia), WITH (Baltimore) and Salem Communications.[http://www.thejpshow.com/on_show.html) John Pendleto Show]{{Dead link|date=December 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

[http://www.studentsforliberty.org/college/conferences/international/2008/2008-conference-program/2) Columbia University][http://www.bush2004.org/books/) Top 100 Political Books on Amazon.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222211145/http://www.bush2004.org/books/) |date=February 22, 2012 }}

In March 2009, Smith hosted a charity event for the Humane Society of New York at the Hudson Terrace in New York City.{{cite web |url= http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-events/photos-for-a-cause-at-the-smith-valliere-pllc-spring-fling-for-the-humane-society-of-new-york/ |title= Photos for a Cause at the Smith Valliere PLLC Spring Fling for the Humane Society Of New York |author= Moses, Ariel |date= March 9, 2009 |work= GuestofaGuest.com |access-date= April 22, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090422095720/http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-events/photos-for-a-cause-at-the-smith-valliere-pllc-spring-fling-for-the-humane-society-of-new-york/ |archive-date= April 22, 2009 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}[http://www.famegame.com/party/1016282 Fame Game]

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{{Reflist|2}}

• The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2004. {{ISBN|0-89526-085-9}}.
• Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts. New York: Three Rivers Press. {{ISBN|0-307-33925-4}}.
• #Duped: How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back. New York: Bombardier Books, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1642930115}}.
• First They Came for the Gun Owners: The Campaign to Disarm You and Take Your Freedoms. New York: Bombardier Books, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1642938289}}.
• Disarmed: What the Ukraine War Teaches Americans About the Right to Bear Arms. New York: Bombardier Books, 2023. {{ISBN|978-1637589236}}.

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