About Suzelle Smith

Suzelle M. Smith is a partner and co-founder of the Los Angeles law firm Howarth & Smith. Ms. Smith has extensive experience in complex litigation, professional malpractice, products liability, entertainment, first amendment, and business law and has tried many cases to verdict, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Some of her cases include the Estate of Doris Duke, antitrust litigation against the NFL, an Attorney General action against the tobacco industry, breach of contract claims for the Vatican Library (custodian of Vatican art), claims brought against a major polluter by the citizens of a residential area, copyright claims against major film studios, trademark infringement claims, breach of contract actions against major Fortune 100 companies on behalf of former executives, right to privacy and right to publicity claims on behalf of major entertainment celebrities, and terrorist cases, including actions brought by the families of the victims of the 911 events against Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and state sponsors of terrorism, among others.