Maura A. Smith Law Offices LLC
THE FIRM
Maura A. Smith Law Offices LLC was founded in 2016. Ms. Smith has been practicing law continuously since 1982, and is admitted to practice law in the States of New York, Connecticut, Florida and Tennessee. She also serves as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association's national roster of commercial arbitrators. Over the past four years, she has developed a family and matrimonial law practice in Connecticut and New York, and became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst in 2018. In May 2019, Ms. Smith was invited to join the Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C., as a contract partner. She continues to advise her business clients in a wide range of matters, including business formation and restructuring, governance, compliance, succession planning, and dispute resolution, drawing on her more than 30 years of legal experience as the general counsel of several large public companies and as a partner in the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie.
To learn more about Ms. Smith's family and matrimonial law practice, go to .
MAURA SMITH PROFILE
Maura A. Smith
Founder and Principal
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Attorney Smith has an extensive background in corporate law, economics and finance. She was a partner at Baker McKenzie, one of the largest international law firms in the world, before entering the corporate world in 1991 where she was vice president and general counsel of GE Plastics. From 1998 to 2014 she served as the chief legal officer (general counsel and secretary) of four global public companies, Owens Corning, International Paper, PepsiCo, and Delhaize Group (now Ahold Delhaize). In 2016, she started her own law firm, primarily focused on commercial and corporate matters. She also
expanded her practice to include alternative dispute resolution, representing a public company retailer as its national claims and settlement counsel, and becoming an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association.
She also represented clients with family law disputes, developing a matrimonial practice, utilizing her financial and corporate background to assist in dividing complex marital estates. She became a Certified Financial Analyst and has achieved success for her clients in the courtroom and through the effective negotiation of divorce agreements. This work has become her passion, and has, as of May 2019, joined the Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C. as a partner.
Education
University of Miami Law School
Juris Doctor
Graduated with Honors
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics
University of Oxford
M.Phil. Economics
Rhodes Scholar
(New York, Lady Margaret Hall, 1977)
Vassar College
Bachelor of Arts, Economics
Graduated with Highest Honors
and Departmental Distinction
Omicron Delta Epsilon, President
Phi Beta Kappa
Diversity and Inclusion Pledge
The Firm signed the Connecticut Legal Community's Diversity and Inclusion Pledge (the "Pledge"), and affirm its ongoing commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion within the Firm and the Connecticut legal community as a whole. We hereby declare that a core value of our firm is to promote diversity and inclusion. In doing so, we pledge to respect the diversity of all individuals, and to create inclusive environments within our firm that allows diverse individuals to succeed, grow, be respected and valued, contribute to the overall strength of our firm, and share in the benefits and rewards of those contributions. Diversity, as it is used in the Pledge, is an inclusive concept, one that embraces age, color, ethnicity, familial or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background.
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Dispute Resolution:
Maura A. Smith Law Offices LLC
Ms. Smith is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, serving on its national roster of commercial arbitrators. In addition to her family law practice with the Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C., Ms. Smith will continue her practice as a neutral in the commercial area.
Family Law:
Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C.
Maura joined the Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C., with offices in Westport, CT. Go to for a full description of the firm's areas of practice.
Attorney Smith was one of the founding directors of BluePath Service Dogs, Inc.™. She is passionate about BluePath's mission, and the important role this not-for-profit organization plays in providing service dogs to children with autism.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
FOR BUSINESS MATTERS AND COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION/MEDIATION:
Maura A. Smith Law Offices LLC
New York Office (preferred mailing and email address)
email:
200 Park Avenue, Suite 1700
New York, NY 10166
Tel: (646) 632-3776
Cell: (203) 253-7036
New Canaan, Connecticut Office
1757 Ponus Ridge
New Canaan, CT 06840
Tel: (203) 801-0891
Fax: (203) 801-0892
Law Offices of Edward Nusbaum P.C.
email: msmith@nusbaumfamilylaw.com
212 Post Road West
Westport, CT 06880
Tel: (203) 226-8181
Fax: (203) 226-6691
