Jared Smith focuses his practice on tort and casualty defense, with a specialization in transportation and logistics litigation and a focus on national motor carriers, logistics companies, and transportation marketplace participants. He also counsels clients on litigation readiness and discovery matters across a national litigation practice, providing legal project and process management services to assist his clients’ management of e-Discovery, risk identification, and exposure prevention. Jared has a litigation background in general liability and casualty, business torts, and personal injury defense in premises liability and construction claims.

Prior to joining Wilson Elser, Jared practiced civil litigation in matters including transportation law and personal injury, premises and products liability, insurance bad faith coverage and subrogation claims, and toxic tort claims. He also served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jennifer Harlacher Sibum of the Court of Common Pleas for Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

    Education

    • Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 2015)
      • managing editor, Penn State Law Review
    • Grove City College (B.A. in Political Science, 2012)

    Bar Admissions

    • Pennsylvania

    Court Admissions

    • U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
    • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
    • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

    Awards & Honors

    • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch™, 2024-2026
    • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch in the area of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, 2021-2023
    • Selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® Rising Stars™, 2022-2023
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