Background
Smith, Russell A. was born on March 22, 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Smith, Russell A. was born on March 22, 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Rutgers University (Bachelor of Arts, with High Honors, 1982). Columbia Law School (Juris Doctor, 1985).
Admitted to the bar, 1986, New New York United States. Court of Appeals, Second, Fifth and Sixth Circuits. United States. District Court, Southern District of New York, Northern District of Mississippi and Eastern District of Michigan.
Author: "New York Courts Deal Blows to Claims of Libel in Fiction,".
"1991, Clark/Boardman Entertainment Publishing and the Arts Handbook," "Will The "Cheever" Case Affect Other Author/Publisher Rels?" New York Law Journal, August 6, 1991, Page 1. Guest Lecturer: Columbia Law School Seminar on Music Industry Contracts, Spring, 1990.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Symposium on Estate of John Cheever v. Academy Chicago Publishers, Fall, 1989 and Spring, 1990.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Symposium on the "Cultural Elite and Censorship: Whose Values Anyway?" August 13, 1992.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New New York New York State and American Bar Associations. The National Lawyers Guild.
Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New New York New York State and American Bar Associations. The National Lawyers Guild.