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Juris Doctor:
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1988
Editor, Pacific Law Journal
Bachelor of Arts:
University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
Member:
State Bar of California
Marin County Bar Association
Admitted to Practice:
All California state courts
United States District Court
(Northern and Eastern Districts, California)
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
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Northern California
Super Lawyers
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Real Estate · Land Use · Civil Litigation · Environmental Law
Selected by his peers as a Northern California Super Lawyer for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, Paul C. Smith has a broad civil practice emphasizing real estate, land use, and related civil litigation. He advises individuals, corporations, partnerships, joint ventures and public entities on a wide spectrum of real estate- and land use-related legal issues. For example, he obtained a favorable Court of Appeal decision in a landslide and surface water case resulting in a $1,000,000 settlement for his clients. Mr. Smith appears regularly before county and city boards and commissions on behalf of clients seeking to obtain, or to oppose, land use approvals. He generally encourages a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach.
While in law school, Mr. Smith was a writer and editor for the Pacific Law Journal and served the California Supreme Court as an extern for Justice David N. Eagleson. He began his career in Sacramento, California, first at Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard and later at Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott. He also was general counsel to Navis Corporation, an international software company in Oakland, California. Mr. Smith joined the firm in 1998 and became a partner in 2002.
A Marin County native, Mr. Smith was Tiburon’s mayor in 2006. He was elected to the Tiburon Town Council in 2003 and served on the Tiburon Design Review Board and Planning Commission. He is married, with two children.
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