Abbe Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Abbe Smith
Occupation	Attorney
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1956(1956-09-22)
Age	68
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Abbe Smith Biography

Abbe Smith is one of the most popular and richest Attorney who was born on September 22, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Smith earned a B.A.degree from Yale College in 1978 and a J.D. degree from the New York University School of Law in 1982. During her second year of law school at NYU—while working in the Prison Law Clinic with Professor Claudia Angelos—Smith began working on Patsy Kelly Jarrett’s federal habeas corpus petition. In March 1977, a jury found Jarrett guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of robbery, but Jarrett maintained her innocence. Smith worked on Jarrett’s case for the next 25 years. From 2005–2006, Smith was a Fulbright Program scholar at the University of Melbourne School of Law in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1990, Smith moved to Harvard Law School where she was Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, a clinical instructor in HLS’ criminal defense clinic, and a lecturer on law in Harvard’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. The Criminal Justice Institute is the curriculum-based criminal law clinical program of Harvard Law School.

Abbe Smith Net Worth

Abbe Smith is one of the richest Attorney from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abbe Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abbe Lyn Smith (born 1956) is an American criminal defense attorney and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Smith is Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic and Co-Director of the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program.

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Professor Smith writes about representing unpopular clients. She wrote an opinion article in the Washington Post titled, “What motivates a lawyer to defend a Tsarnaev, a Castro or a Zimmerman?” Smith co-edited How Can You Represent Those People? with Monroe Freedman. In the book—a collection of essays—criminal defense lawyers and others share stories about how it feels to defend people accused of crimes ranging from the ordinary to the horrific. In a piece on Judy Clarke and representing unpopular clients, she remarked: “Criminal defense is kind of a unique calling — not to sound pretentious — it takes a peculiar heart-set, mind-set to do the work for a career.” She continued, “We stand behind people who are often the most reviled.” She discussed why lawyers defend monsters on MSNBC.

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Adam Ranked on the list of most popular Attorney. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Abbe Smith celebrates birthday on September 22 of every year.