Smith Hernandez LLC
(518) 283-4100

J Hernandez, III received his doctorate of jurisprudence from Albany Law School in Albany, New York in 1989. He worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Rensselaer County District Attorneys James B. Canfield and Louis J. Catone from 1989 to 1992. He served as First Assistant Public Defender for Montgomery County in 1993. He was the Montgomery County Public Defender from1995 to 1998.

From 1999 to 2001, J was a name partner in Premo & Hernandez LLP, an Albany litigation firm handling personal injury and criminal defense matters. For the next three years he concentrated on criminal defense as a solo practitioner. In 2004, with Trey Smith he founded Smith Hernandez LLC, a litigation firm with emphases in criminal defense, personal injury and product liability.

J has prosecuted and defended several high-profile homicides and other criminal cases. He has been appointed to defense of death penalty cases. The Brooklyn, New York native is fluent in Spanish.

E-mail:  J at SHLLC dot NET