Jennifer A. Smith is a seasoned attorney and skilled mediator. As a knowledgeable lawyer and compassionate human being, she understands the intricacies and emotional toll of conflict. Working from her own personal journey through divorce, Jennifer offers a unique blend of professional legal acumen, personal empathy, and two decades of law experience to her clients.

Wanting to be a trial lawyer, Cloyd focused on criminal law; interning at the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., the Public Defender’s Office in Alexandria, Virginia, and the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office in Arlington, Virginia. During his third year of law school, Cloyd successfully prosecuted seven bench trials and second chaired a felony malicious wounding case in Arlington, and earned an acquittal for a wrongfully arrested defendant in a felony jury trial in Alexandria. After law school, Cloyd began his legal career serving as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Richard E. Gardiner of the Fairfax County Circuit Court. Within his first two years of practicing law he won a case of first impression in the Virginia Supreme Court arguing that trust is not a contract and not subject to mandatory arbitration under the Virginia Uniform Arbitration Act or the Federal Arbitration Act.

Mr. Smith has many years of courtroom and trial litigation experience trying simple to serious, complex cases. In the Appellate Court, he argued before the Georgia Supreme Court in State v. Kenneth Williams (S19G0005).

Alex Smith graduated from Middletown High School in 1969. He received a BA in political science from Ohio University in 1973. He received a JD from Albany Law School in 1977, after spending two years of writing for the Albany Law Review; two of his articles were published. Alex was licensed to practice law in New York in 1978. He has since become a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of New York. For the past 30 years, Alex has engaged in trial and appellate practice in the Federal and State courts, concentrating in the fields of civil rights, criminal, municipal and land use law. Alex is currently the part-time Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Middletown; he has been the Assistant or Corporation Counsel for Middletown since 1993. From 1996 to 2000, he was the part-time Attorney for the Town of Greenville.

Mr. Smith is a highly-experienced securities lawyer, chief compliance officer, and business attorney with over 23 years of experience strengthening the legal and compliance functions of investment advisers, broker-dealers, and investment vehicles. He has also represented companies at all stages of maturity with their capital and debt raising efforts via private offerings and public offerings. He has also served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for NorthRock Partners LLC and Virtue Capital Management LLC; Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of RIA Compliance Firm LLC, and Founder and Managing Attorney for LawVisory. He previously served as Chief Compliance Officer of Griffin Capital Company LLC and Research Affiliates LLC, where he also served as Assistant General Counsel.