Raymond Stevens Smethurst, Jr.
Member
Email: RSS@adkinspotts.com

Practice Areas: Litigation; Appellate Practice; Administrative Hearings; Environmental Law; Land Use Development Law; Consumer Law.

Admitted: 1961, Maryland; 1967, District of Columbia

Law School: George Washington University, J.D., with honors, 1961

College: Cornell University, B. Met.E., 1958; Cornell University

Member: Wicomico County (President, 1979), Maryland State (Member, Section Council, Litigation, 1979-1985), Federal and American Bar Associations; Maryland Trial Lawyers Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Biography: Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi. Associate Editor, The George Washington Law Review, 1960-1961. Labor Relations Advisor, National Capital Transportation Agency, 1962-1963. Member, Wicomico County Housing Authority, 1965-1967. Special Assistant, Maryland State Board of Law Examiners, 1966-1968. City Attorney of Pocomoke City, 1967-1980. Member, 1975-1980, 1988-1992, Vice-Chairman, 1979-1980, 1991-1992, Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. Member, Character Committee of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1995-. Member, Appellate Judicial Nominating Commission, 2003-2007. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers; American Bar Foundation; Maryland Bar Foundation.

Born: Washington, D.C., November 21, 1935

ISLN: 903640952