Mark W. Smith

Mark W. Smith (born September 4, 1968, in Cheverly, Maryland) is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, a former professor of law, and the founding partner of a Rockefeller Center-based law firm in New York City. Smith is a regular political and legal commentator in the national media and is a former semi-professional baseball player.

Mark is a trial lawyer and conservative writer. He is the author of ''Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy'' (2004), and of ''Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts'' (2007).

Graduating from New York University School of Law in 1995, Smith is currently a trial lawyer in private practice in New York City. He has previously served as a public interest lawyer representing a variety of clients (such as a case in 1997 about hair-braiding regulations in New York), many of whom alleged infringements upon their Constitutional rights. He has also been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Kansas Law School, where he taught a course on American laws with respect to firearms ownership, and clerked for a federal judge. Provided by Wikipedia