embarked on a career in criminal law upon completion of a judicial clerkship. He is a former member of the elite Enhanced Narcotics Defense Unit within the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan where he represented clients charged with major narcotics crimes and homicides. He is a former Deputy Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and the Virgin Islands and represented clients charged with an array of
federal crimes. As an attorney in private practice he has extensive experience and success representing his clients in numerous federal courts. The variety of cases in which he has appeared as counsel include complex white-collar criminal cases, racketeering offenses, conspiracies, mail frauds, bank frauds, wire frauds, tax evasions, homicides, drug offenses, as well as complex civil cases. He has obtained acquittals for his clients in most of the cases he has tried during his career as a criminal defense attorney and has achieved success in the vast majority of his clients’ complex civil litigation cases. He combines knowledge, preparation, diligence, and skill to ensure the best possible result for each client. On the basis of peer recognition and professional achievement, DALE LIONEL SMITH, ESQ. has been selected by Super Lawyers in multiple consecutive years as one of the top 5% of attorneys practicing white-collar criminal defense in the New York Metro Area and he has lectured on federal criminal law issues. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is admitted to practice law in New York, California, Pennsylvania, the Virgin Islands, many federal courts, as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States Bar. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from American University in Washington, DC and a law degree from Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia.
