Morgan Smith
I focus on winning our clients' civil litigation and family court cases here at Smith & Raver LLP. I typically work in Hennepin County and the Twin Cities area, but occasionally take cases farther away. While some of my work is consulting and drafting legal documents such as contracts, I primarily appear in court with clients in contested hearings and trials. At the suggestion of a client and friend of the firm, I post some of our trial court outcomes on our News and Results page. I am pleased to have helped produce positive outcomes both at trial, and in pre-trial hearings. In each of those diverse cases, a common factor to success has been helping clients new to the legal system understand the parlance and procedure of litigation. As part of Smith & Raver LLP, I've been privileged to work on patient privacy cases alongside my friends at Clear Protection, sponsored by the Muscala Chemical HealthClinic.

Outside of my work at Smith & Raver LLP, I currently volunteer on my local Human Rights Commission, and by responding to public legal questions on Yahoo! Answers and AllExperts. Older AllExperts responses are also available. lso have profile pages on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Prior to forming Smith & Raver LLP with my partner and William Mitchell classmate Rick, I worked as a solo practitioner and for large firms, such as
Faegre & Benson, and smaller practices, like Fetterly & Gordon.

I graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 1995. While studying there, I took as many internships as possible to get more time in court, such as a judicial internship with Judge John Connelly in St. Paul, and prosecuting felonies at the Ramsey County Attorney's office.

I earned my undergraduate degree in English with a Chemistry minor from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire in 1992, and then moved back to Minnesota to study law where I was born. My father followed my grandfather into the newspaper business, and I grew up in several midwestern small towns as we moved throughout his career.

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