Clients rightly seek and expect increasingly tailored and targeted engagement with legal professionals.  Complex project objectives require complex strategies and team integration.  Appreciation of these new and essential dynamics is why David C. Smith left the big-law realm and forged a new alternative.

On behalf of his clients, David has defined, secured, and executed strategic multi-disciplinary project solutions at all governmental and industry levels.  From local city councils and community groups to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and from industry collaboration to tactical competitive advantage, David’s passion is not only legal superiority but comprehensive project success at all essential levels.

Spending most of his career as counsel and senior management for a nationally renowned master-planned community developer, David was on point to coordinate the three-dimensional chess of initial entitlement, regulatory approval and compliance, public endorsement, communications strategy, and ultimate project delivery.  David’s expertise includes legal mastery of all relevant subject matter, government engagement and navigation, public interaction and negotiation, and media strategies.

A former journalist, clients with high-profile, nationally renowned and publicly controversial projects have entrusted David, and only David, with media engagement and spokesperson authority.  When protection of a company’s brand is of paramount importance, David’s unique combination of legal understanding and diplomatic communications sophistication have allowed projects to navigate the essential regulatory labyrinth while directly engaging and shaping public perception and reaction to critical developments. 

On behalf of his clients’ direct interests, for industries at-large, and for the public benefit generally, David engages the government and public arenas in multiple contexts.  David has negotiated critical state legislation in Sacramento with heads of the Legislature and the Governor’s representatives, discussed with and educated federal agency Cabinet secretaries and their staffs on critical policy issues, serves on his local Planning Commission, and volunteers on multiple non-profit industry and philanthropic boards.

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Clients rightly seek and expect increasingly tailored and targeted engagement with legal professionals.  Complex project objectives require complex strategies and team integration.  Appreciation of these new and essential dynamics is why David C. Smith left the big-law realm and forged a new alternative.

On behalf of his clients, David has defined, secured, and executed strategic multi-disciplinary project solutions at all governmental and industry levels.  From local city councils and community groups to the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and from industry collaboration to tactical competitive advantage, David’s passion is not only legal superiority but comprehensive project success at all essential levels.

Spending most of his career as counsel and senior management for a nationally renowned master-planned community developer, David was on point to coordinate the three-dimensional chess of initial entitlement, regulatory approval and compliance, public endorsement, communications strategy, and ultimate project delivery.  David’s expertise includes legal mastery of all relevant subject matter, government engagement and navigation, public interaction and negotiation, and media strategies.

A former journalist, clients with high-profile, nationally renowned and publicly controversial projects have entrusted David, and only David, with media engagement and spokesperson authority.  When protection of a company’s brand is of paramount importance, David’s unique combination of legal understanding and diplomatic communications sophistication have allowed projects to navigate the essential regulatory labyrinth while directly engaging and shaping public perception and reaction to critical developments. 

On behalf of his clients’ direct interests, for industries at-large, and for the public benefit generally, David engages the government and public arenas in multiple contexts.  David has negotiated critical state legislation in Sacramento with heads of the Legislature and the Governor’s representatives, discussed with and educated federal agency Cabinet secretaries and their staffs on critical policy issues, serves on his local Planning Commission, and volunteers on multiple non-profit industry and philanthropic boards.