Sheila M.Smith

Sheila Smith, a partner in Freking & Betz, has dedicated her law career to representing employees in employment matters. She has represented hundreds of employees, and has won two multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and two significant pro-employee decisions in the appeals courts. The law is Sheila's second career; she was an engineer for a large corporation for eleven years prior to studying law. She is a published law review author and frequent speaker on employment law topics, and has been included in various "Who's Who" publications since 1993. She has also been included in "The Best Lawyers in America" since 2007, and has been an "Ohio Superlawyer" since 2004.  Sheila is a Chicago native transplanted to Cincinnati in 1981, and received her engineering degree from Purdue University and her J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of Cincinnati.

Areas of Practice:

Employment law

Litigation

Litigation Percentage:

90% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:

Ohio, 1995

U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 1996

U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1996

U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2000

U.S. Supreme Court, 1999

Education:

University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio, May, 1995
JD
Honors: Order of the Coif

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, May, 1981
BSEE
Major:  Electrical Engineering

Professional Associations and Memberships:

Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, 2007 - Present

Treasurer

Josh Morrow Ohio Workplace Fairness Litigation Fund, 2005 - Present

Treasurer

Cincinnati Employment Lawyers Association, 2000 - Present

Board Member

National Employment Lawyers Association, 1995 - Present

Member

American Bar Association, 1995 - Present

Member

Cincinnati Bar Association, 1995 - Present

Member

American Association For Justice, 1998 - Present

Member