Profile

Peter Smythe, P.C. is a boutique law firm representing a wide variety of clients in the areas of federal and Texas appeals and select litigation. And while Mr. Smythe lends his time to the firm’s concentrations, he considers himself a generalist. He’s handled everything from antitrust cases to will disputes.

Mr. Smythe received his Juris Doctorate from the Texas Tech School of Law in 1993, graduating cum laude.  During his law school tenure, Mr. Smythe served as an associate editor to the Texas Tech Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.  He also served a clerkship at the The Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville, Virgina, where he worked on First Amendment religious issues.  Prior to law school, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from Oral Roberts University, also graduating cum laude.

Mr. Smythe has earned an AV-Rating from Martindale-Hubble which is the organization’s highest rating for legal acumen and ethics.  He is a member of the appellate section of the Dallas Bar Association and State Bar of Texas.  He is also a member of the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit.

Mr. Smythe is licensed in Texas.  He is admitted to practice in the all of the federal districts in Texas and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Gerry Spence

In 2000, Mr. Smythe was accepted to Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyer’s College in Dubois, Wyoming. That summer, he learned the dynamics of psychodrama in the courtroom and the foundations of Gerry Spence’s methods of cross-examination.

Mr. Smythe began his legal career in litigation.  He has tried cases in county courts at law, state district courts, and federal district courts.  He has handled all kinds of pretrial hearings, depositions, mediations, and trials and is at home in the courtroom.

In addition to handling appeals, our firm can add value to all phases of litigation to the busy trial lawyer.  We can assist trial lawyers in pre-suit case evaluation, drafts of summary judgment and other case dispositive motions, drafts of the jury charge, and handling of the charge conference at trial.  After trial, we can assist in judgment formation and enforcement, post-trial motions, and findings of fact and conclusions of law.