About Don Howarth

Don Howarth is a partner and co-founder of the Los Angeles law firm Howarth & Smith. Mr. Howarth has tried many high-profile cases to verdict. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants.

Mr. Howarth received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College, and earned a Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School, as well as a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Howarth served as law clerk for the Honorable Shirley M. Hufstedler, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Howarth is an elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a certified Provider for Continuing Legal Education in Litigation for the State Bar of California and a featured speaker for the American Bar Association (ABA) and other trial lawyer groups.

Mr. Howarth maintains an active commitment to legal scholarship and continuing legal education. In the spring of 1994 and 1996, he gave lectures on behalf of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. In 1997, he was made a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall College, where he continues to lecture each year. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University.

Mr. Howarth has authored many articles and symposia on trial and litigation subjects. He has one book in progress based on his lectures at Oxford University and another has been published by Callaghan Publishing Company in 1989, Case Assessment and Evaluation, with Suzelle Smith.

Mr. Howarth is admitted to practice in California as well the United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Southern, and Northern Districts of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Second Circuit, Eighth Circuit, Tenth Circuit, and the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.