Brent W. Smith
Partner
bsmith@manningleaver.com
(323) 937-4730
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Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1976)
- University of California at Los Angeles (J.D., 1979)
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Summary
Brent W. Smith is one of the senior partners of the law firm, having joined in 1981. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles for both undergraduate and law school, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts Degree in history, summa cum laude, in 1976. He obtained his Juris Doctorate in 1979.
The focus of Mr. Smith’s legal practice is automobile dealer law, advertising law, business purchases and sales, association and commercial law, and general civil law. He supervises the firm’s advertising review program for automobile dealerships and has been involved in numerous buy-sell agreements involving automobile dealerships throughout the State of California. In addition to representing many California new car dealers, Mr. Smith has provided legal services to various dealer associations and he is counsel for the Ford Dealers Advertising Association of Southern California.
Mr. Smith is a major contributor to the California New Car Dealers Association Dealer Management Guide and California Auto Dealer Advertising Law Manual which are two substantial publications published by the California New Car Dealers Association. He has also been a presenter at numerous legal compliance seminars for dealers sponsored by that Association covering a wide range of topics including advertising law, finance and insurance, privacy-safeguards, FTC Red Flags Rule, and California’s Car Buyer’s Bill of Rights.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the National Association of Dealer Counsel (NADC), and participates in a variety of community activities and organizations in the San Gabriel Valley where he resides with his family.
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