Timothy Smith | Founding Shareholder

Timothy Smith is a founding partner of Pion, Nerone, Girman & Smith, P.C. He also serves as the Managing Partner of the firm.  His complex litigation practice is concentrated in the areas of transportation law, commercial litigation, insurance coverage, and product liability law.

Previously, Mr. Smith served as national trial counsel for a Fortune 100 corporation and its subsidiaries.  He also gained valuable industry experience and knowledge while working for a Fortune 500 Insurer.

Mr. Smith is a lecturer on catastrophic response, risk management, risk transfer, alternative dispute resolution, and insurance coverage issues.  He has written about these topics in various publications.

Mr. Smith is a member of the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and American Bar Associations.  He is admitted to practice before the state courts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; the United States District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Middle District of Pennsylvania, Southern District of West Virginia, and Northern District of West Virginia; and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits.  He has presented appellate argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.  In addition to Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Mr. Smith has litigated cases in Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, and Texas.  He is a member of TIDA, the Defense Research Institute and the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel Association.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Smith serves as a mediator.  He brings a breadth of litigation experience and geographic reach to mediations or arbitrations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.