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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation

Additional Information: Evan Jason Smith is a founding member of Brodsky & Smith, LLC. His current areas of practice include Anti-trust Litigation; Civil Rights Litigation, Class Action Securities/Shareholder Derivative Litigation; Commercial Litigation; ERISA Litigation; and Personal Injury Litigation.

He began his legal career as an attorney at a Philadelphia boutique litigation law firm where he worked on complex commercial litigation matters. Prior to forming Brodsky & Smith, LLC, he was an attorney at a Philadelphia insurance defense law firm in the Premises and Casualty Liability Litigation Department.

In each year from 2005-2008, he was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers� Rising Star (Attorneys Under 40), an honor bestowed upon less than 2.5% of Pennsylvania attorneys.

He is particularly proud of being able to convince the court in McCain v. Beverly Enterprises, Inc. CV-02-657 (E.D.Pa.), in May 2002, to reverse the long standing and prevailing case law which precluded injured plaintiffs from bringing a claim for damages under a negligence per se theory against medical facilities for violations of state and federal statutes regarding standard of care towards patients. This reversal lowered the burden of proof in civil cases for injured plaintiffs when a governmental agency has found a defendant in violation of state and/or federal standard of care statutes. This case has been cited by many jurisdictions across the country in nursing home neglect litigation.

Upon graduating law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Albert W. Sheppard, Jr. of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District. He also served as a student law clerk for the Honorable William H. Yohn of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable John T.J. Kelly, Jr. of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Superior Court.