Smith Hernandez LLC
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Y.C. "Trey" Smith received his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986 and moved to New York after graduation. He worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Rensselaer County District Attorney James B. Canfield from 1987 to 1989, and as his Chief Assistant District Attorney in 1990 and 1991. For the next year, he served as Confidential Law Clerk to newly-elected New York Supreme Court Justice Canfield.

From 1993 to 1999, Trey was a name partner in Delaney & Smith, an Albany litigation firm handling personal injury cases. During this time he also worked for two years as Town Attorney for the Town of Hoosick. For the next five years, he worked with the Dallas, Texas office of Roger G. Worthington, P.C., a law firm representing people from across the nation with mesothelioma and other asbestos-related cancers. In 2004, he returned to New York and with J Hernandez, III founded Smith Hernandez LLC.

Trey is licensed to practice law in State Court in New York as well as in the Federal District Court of the Northern District of New York. He has been admitted pro hac vice in cases in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and California. He has successfully prosecuted and defended notable homicide and sex crime cases in Rensselaer County. He has briefed, argued and won appeals before the Appellate Division, Third Department, and New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. He tried and won jury verdicts of $2.5 million in an asbestos cancer case, over $900,000 for a permanent soft tissue injury in an automobile accident, and over $300,000 for a broken ankle in a motorcycle accident. He has represented over 50 mesothelioma claimants with recoveries in excess of $1,000,000; please note that these recoveries were obtained in association with other law firms with primary case responsibility. Also: each case is unique; past success does not guarantee success in your case; some cases settle for a lesser amount after verdict; and all recoveries are subject to attorney’s fees and expenses.

E-mail:  Trey at SHLLC dot NET