Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Doylestown, PA

A lawyer and mediator, Susan J. Smith stands out as a diligent and tough negotiator who fights hard to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients in Buck County, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding areas. Focusing primarily on family law matters, including child custody, prenuptial agreements, divorce, alimony and distribution of marital property, Ms. Smith has more than two decades of litigation experience under her belt. In 2016, she joined the team at Williams Family Law, P.C., as a partner.

Ms. Smith is a 1989 graduate of what is now known as Gwynedd Mercy University, where she majored in both English and psychology. She then enrolled at Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law, the state's oldest law school, and received her Juris Doctor in 1992. Following graduation, Ms. Smith worked for a year as an attorney at the Law Office of John C. Howett, Jr.

Licensed to practice in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ms. Smith gained further experience at Power, Bowen and Valimont, working as an attorney from 1993 to 1999. She then served as a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP, a position she held for 16 years. She is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Bucks County Bar Association.

In 2010, Ms. Smith received the prestigious Woman of the Year award from the Bucks County Bar Association. Her integrity, resilience and dedication to preserving family relationships in her community also earned Ms. Smith recognition as a Woman Leader in the Law for 2015 by ALM publications. She has also previously been named as a Woman on the Verge in the Profession by The Legal Intelligencer, the oldest law journal in the country.