Erice W. Smith

Erice W. Smith serves as General Counsel and Contracts Counsel at Hamamatsu Corporation since November 2021, following a role as Director at UnitedLex from April 2021 to October 2021. Prior experience includes managing a team of nine attorneys during complex negotiations at Factor (formerly Axiom Managed Solutions) from March 2019 to April 2021, with a focus on various agreements such as Investigator-Initiated Trials and Confidential Agreements. Erice W. Smith advanced through Axiom from Manager to Senior Associate, developing expertise in commercial contracts, and acted as a subject matter expert while overseeing a team in Poland for a top global pharmaceutical company. Early legal experience includes positions at Legal Helpers as a Clerk and at Keating Muething & Klekamp as a Document Review Clerk. Erice W. Smith holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law and a BA in Journalism from the University of Minnesota.