Lisa L. Smith

From her days as a biology major in college to her many years serving as national science counsel to global pharmaceutical companies, Lisa Smith has had a decades-long focus on how science, and scientific innovation, can improve people’s lives. Smith is a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP, where she co-chairs the firm’s Life Science & Health Effects team, as well as the Class Action, and Products Liability and Mass Torts teams. Smith is also a member of Law360 Life Sciences Editorial Advisory Board. She has decades of experience in regulatory approval and compliance, product labeling, risk management, and defending high-stakes product liability claims.

In addition to her experience in representing global pharma companies, Smith also represents emerging medical technology companies, research hospitals, and hospital systems. Prior to Phillips Lytle, Smith spent four years with Crowell and Moring in its Washington, D.C. office. She is admitted to practice in New York and Washington, D.C. She also serves as Vice President of the Boards of Trustees of the Charter School for Applied Technologies and the Irish Classical Theatre Company, as well as serving as Vice President of The Pink Pillow Project, Inc., a breast cancer charity she co-founded. Smith holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Grove City College and earned her J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.