Michael C. Smith
Siebman Burg Phillips & Smith LLP
Michael Smith is a partner in the Marshall office of Siebman, Burg, Phillips & Smith, LLP, where he specializes in complex commercial and patent litigation in federal court. Mr. Smith, who has appeared as counsel of record in over 500 civil cases in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, served as chairman of the Eastern District's Local Rules Advisory Committee from 2000-2009. He has also been the editor of the O'Connor's Federal Rules * Civil Trials handbook on federal civil procedure since 1998, and maintains the nationally recognized Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice web log at www.EDTexweblog.com, which tracks Eastern District news and caselaw. Mr. Smith holds a law degree from Baylor University, a master's degree in public administration from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor's degree from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce). Mr. Smith is a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. He also served on the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas from 2005-08, where he was recognized as Outstanding Third Year Director and received a Presidential Citation for his work in the area of member benefits. He currently serves as chair of the editorial board for the Texas Bar Journal, and as chair-elect of the Council of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Smith is a past president of the Eastern District of Texas Bar Association, East Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Harrison County Bar Association, and is a charter member of the T. John Ward American Inn of Court. He is a recipient of the Texas Access to Justice Foundation's Cy Pres: Impact on Justice award, as well as the Northeast Texas Association of Paralegals' Attorney Most Supportive of Paralegals award, and TexasBarCLE's Standing Ovation award in 2010. Mr. Smith, a Marshall native, served on the Marshall City Commission for three terms, from 1996-2002, and is a former president of the Harrison County Historical Museum and the Citizens Advisory Committee and member of the Marshall Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. In addition to his legal writings, Mr. Smith is also the author of two books on aircraft carriers, Essex Class Carriers in action, and US Light Carriers in action, published by Squadron-Signal publications.
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