Law 2024: BROOKS M. SMITH

In early 2019, Smith was named managing partner of the Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders’ Richmond office. 

Since then, the firm became Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders through a merger, but Smith held on to his leadership role. Today, he oversees more than 150 attorneys working in numerous practice areas, including the strategies group, which is the firm’s full-service government relations subsidiary. In July, Law.com reported that Troutman Pepper plans a merger with Locke Lord that would create a combined firm with $1.6 billion annual revenue by the end of 2024.

Smith also helps lead Troutman Pepper’s Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group. Additionally, he serves as water and solid waste regulation legal counsel for the Virginia Manufacturers Association directs environmental affairs in Virginia and West Virginia for the Metallurgical Coal Producers Association and is legal counsel to the Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council.

An alumnus of the University of Richmond and Vermont Law and Graduate School, Smith writes and speaks extensively on the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws.