Office
Charleston
Liberty Center, Suite 600
151 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29401-2239

Contact Details
Tel: 843.534.4309
Fax: 843.534.4350
Email: jack.smith@nelsonmullins.com

Education
University of South Carolina School of Law
University of South Carolina

Bar Admissions
South Carolina

Jack Smith is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. He practices in Charleston in the areas of environmental law and litigation, administrative law, land use law, and constitutional law. A member of the South Carolina Bar, Mr. Smith is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Mr. Smith’s extensive knowledge of environmental policy and regulations stems from his prior work for state and federal government agencies. He has held attorney positions with the Office of Coastal Resources Management, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, the S.C. Coastal Council (staff attorney, 1980-89), and the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, National Oceans Policy Study. Mr. Smith was appointed alternate delegate for the State of South Carolina to the Coastal States Organization, 1982-89.

Mr. Smith’s environmental practice includes hazardous waste site management and remediation, contaminated property liability negotiation, litigation, redevelopment and related regulatory counseling. Additionally, he is experienced in matters of administrative law, land use planning and zoning law, and he has worked with brownfields redevelopment, environmental insurance and regulatory permitting. His CERCLA experience includes pre-disclosure counseling of corporate clients with CERCLA liability, counseling on environmental liability issues of real property ownership and transactions, brownfields redevelopment projects, negotiation of contract language for contaminated property transactions and environmental insurance. He has represented PRPs in complex private and government litigation, including environmental issues in international transportation liability. Mr. Smith has experience with RCRA in the areas of compliance counseling, audit programs and permitting, wetlands enforcement defense and wetlands permitting, NPDES permitting, Water Quality Certification permitting and appeals, tank issues and regulation, and stormwater management projects in impaired and sensitive aquatic areas. With these issues, Mr. Smith has experience in the Southeast, Northeast, and Western regions of the United States.

In demand as a speaker and for seminar faculties, Mr. Smith is prominently affiliated with the American Bar Association (ABA) and its Administrative Law, Environment, Energy and Resources, and International Law and Practice sections. Mr. Smith is the founding chair of the South Carolina Bar’s Environment and Natural Resources Section. He served on the Governing Council of the Environment and Natural Resources Section, and is former chair of the SC Bar’s Disaster Legal Assistance Committee, Young Lawyer Division. Mr. Smith is also chairman of the board of directors of the South Carolina World Trade Center (2005-06). He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (1993-2010 editions), and he is the author of Analysis of the Regulation of Beachfront Development in South Carolina, 42 S.C. L. REV., 1991.

Mr. Smith earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1978 and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1974.