Mark Smith concentrates his practice in white-collar crime, government investigations, and business litigation and regulation. Mr. Smith represents individuals and businesses during all stages of criminal and other government enforcement actions and in business litigation matters.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Smith spent over a decade as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.His significant accomplishments included:

• Serving as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau where he supervised over fifty prosecutors assigned to the Environmental Crimes Strike Force, Public Integrity Division, Economic Crimes Division, and the High Technology Crimes Unit.  
• Overseeing the prosecution of over one hundred public corruption cases.
• Personally trying cases ranging from securities fraud to public corruption offenses in Superior Courts throughout the Commonwealth.
• Acting as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in joint federal and state criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Mr. Smith also served as a public defender in New York City, where he successfully tried cases in New York’s trial courts and clerked for a trial judge of the New York States Supreme Court.  He is active in the Boston Bar Association, serving as a member of its Criminal Justice Steering Committee and chairing several continuing education programs.

Mr. Smith is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Suffolk University Law School.  He lives in Scituate with his wife and their two children.