Culver Smith III
Culver Smith III, P.A.
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
About Culver Smith III
He served a year as a judicial clerk at the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, followed by four years of active duty in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG). He has been in private practice since 1972.
His experience counseling lawyers and others on ethical issues is enhanced by his deep involvement with The Florida Bar and the courts. He chaired a Florida Bar grievance committee and served two terms on the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar. In addition, he is a long-time member of and has twice chaired the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee, which issues advisory ethics opinions to members of the bar.
Practice Areas
- Ethics consultation
- Expert witness on professional responsibility
- Bar-disciplinary defense
Probably every practicing lawyer considers himself or herself an ethical person and may assume that he or she is capable of navigating conflict-of-interest and other ethics issues on intuition alone. But not all ethics rules are intuitive. In many situations, the right course of action can be unclear.
When ethical questions arise, individual attorneys and law firms call on Skip Smith for informed interpretation of complex legal-ethics principles. With the help of his sophisticated knowledge of this field, lawyers can work proactively to avoid costly bar complaints, malpractice suits, and other unwelcome actions.
When an expert is needed to testify on standards and practices in the legal profession, Skip Smith provides an informed, objective voice.
His credentials, extensive experience, and broad body of knowledge on legal ethics and professional responsibility enable him to testify credibly and decisively on such issues as whether ethical or fiduciary duties have been breached and whether the standard of care has been met.
For a lawyer, receiving a grievance notice from the Florida Bar can be devastating. Your license to practice law is on the line, and for most lawyers, the grievance process is a frightening mystery. With his deep knowledge of both the Bar’s inner workings and the underlying ethical principles involved, Skip Smith has successfully guided hundreds of attorneys through bar-disciplinary proceedings. His clear-headed, rational approach enables attorneys to frame the best possible response to the Bar’s inquiry. If the matter proceeds beyond this first step, Skip’s extensive experience as a trial and appellate lawyer provides his clients with the advocacy and negotiation skills needed to pursue a favorable result with bar counsel, before a grievance committee, or in the Supreme Court of Florida.
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Contact Culver Smith III
(561) 301-3800
1555 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, Suite 1440
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
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