Douglas G. Smith's Jackson Lewis Attorney Profile

Douglas G. Smith

Position:	Partner
Office:	Pittsburgh Office
Address:	One PPG Place 28th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone:	(412) 232-0118
Fax:	(412) 232-3441
Areas of Practice Labor, including Preventive Practices Litigation and e-Discovery Management Education, including e-Based Training

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Admitted to Practice

States
Pennsylvania	(1989)

U.S. Courts of Appeals
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
6th Circuit Court of Appeals

U.S. District Courts
Pennsylvania - E.D. Pa.
Pennsylvania - M.D. Pa.
Pennsylvania - W.D. Pa.

Education

Law	Duquesne University J.D., 1989
Graduate	Indiana University of Pennsylvania M.A., 1983
Undergraduate	Indiana University of Pennsylvania B.A., 1981

Bar and Professional Association Memberships

American Bar Association
Section/Committee	Position	Dates
Labor and Employment Law Section	Member

Published Works

Articles
"The Law of Training" Smart Business (2006) [Co-Author]
"Resolving Grievances: A Practical Approach" (1983) [Co-Author]

Biography

Doug Smith is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Jackson Lewis LLP. Mr. Smith obtained his law degree with honors at the Duquesne University School of Law, and also earned a Master's Degree in labor and employee relations from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. During that time, he co-authored the Instructor's Manual to accompany Resolving Grievances: A Practical Approach (Reston, 1983).

Prior to commencing the practice of law, Mr. Smith was employed in a management human resources position for a major Pittsburgh health system where he was responsible for handling discrimination charges, unemployment compensation matters, day-to-day administration of personnel policies and grievance processing. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was employed as a labor organizer for a state-wide health care union. He has effectively utilized that experience in counseling employers in a wide variety of employment settings.

In addition to counseling employers in matters such as union organizational campaigns, he focuses his practice in the area of employment law litigation before agencies and courts on the state and federal level. Mr. Smith has successfully litigated matters in state and federal court under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and various state tort theories.

Mr. Smith was recently named “Top Hundred Labor Attorneys in America” by Labor Relations Institute, Inc. Mr. Smith was selected from more than 8,700 attorneys based on an independent evaluation of the number of NLRB elections in which each attorney provided representation and the success of these elections during the last ten (10) years. Mr. Smith is also a sought after speaker on a wide variety of employment-related topics and has been an adjunct faculty member in the industrial relations masters degree program of a Pittsburgh college.

Mr. Smith has been active as a board member of several Pittsburgh not-for-profit organizations including AC-ACLD, an Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities, and Christ Community Church of the South Hills.