Craig W. Smith

Craig W. Smith has played a central role in many of the firm’s significant successes on behalf of shareholders and public corporations in derivative and securities actions. His clients include individuals and institutional investors with holdings in the banking, finance and investment, biotechnology, construction, defense, for-profit education, information technology, leisure, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical industries. Mr. Smith also serves as Robbins LLP’s General Counsel. Mr. Smith has been recognized by his peers as a San Diego Super Lawyer for ten consecutive years.

Before joining Robbins LLP, Mr. Smith served for four years as division and regional counsel for UBS Financial Services, Inc., where he advised management regarding securities litigation, financial regulation, compliance and risk management. He spent the first decade of his career at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he defended Fortune 500 companies and professional services firms in securities fraud class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, and SEC investigations and enforcement actions, as well as professional malpractice and business tort matters. He served for five years on O’Melveny’s firm-wide Pro Bono Committee.

Mr. Smith earned his Juris Doctorate from the Yale Law School, where he externed for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Smith earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded Highest Honors in Political Science, Highest Distinction in the College of Letters and Science, and was granted early initiation into Phi Beta Kapa in his junior year.