Family Law Attorney Joins Willig, Williams & Davidson

PHILADELPHIA (June 2023) – Labor, employment, workers’ compensation and family law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson is pleased to announce that Thomas R. Smith, Jr. has joined the firm as an associate in the firm’s award-winning family law practice group.

“Tom is committed to helping clients through the hardest times in their lives with compassion and sensitivity, and we are glad to welcome him to the team,” said Managing Partner Deborah R. Willig. “With experience in divorce, child custody, child and spousal support and other sensitive family law matters, Tom provides meaningful advocacy at times when clients need it the most.”

Before joining Willig, Williams & Davidson, Tom served as an associate attorney at a private firm, where he also worked on matters involving criminal law, traffic citations, and bankruptcy. As a law clerk for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Glenn B. Bronson, he drafted more than 55 opinions, primarily in homicide cases, for Post Conviction Relief Act appeals and appeals from judgment of sentence. While a law school student, he served as an intern at plaintiff’s-side employment discrimination firm Sidney L. Gold & Associates, P.C., where he helped clients fight for fair and equitable treatment.

“Willig, Williams & Davidson’s family law team is well respected, and I am proud to join their efforts to help families in need,” said Smith. “While clients seeking domestic relations legal services may be going through turbulent times, I am devoted to ensuring that their experience is as comfortable as possible and that they are treated fairly and amicably.”

Smith earned his law degree from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where he was named a Dean’s Merit Scholar. He received a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with minors in legal studies, philosophy, and religion from Bucknell University.

About Willig, Williams & Davidson – Willig, Williams & Davidson (www.wwdlaw.com) is one of the largest and most respected union-side labor law firms in the United States. The firm has offices in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Jenkintown Pa., as well as Haddonfield, N.J., and Chicago, Ill. Founded in 1979, Willig, Williams & Davidson focuses on representing labor unions, employee benefit funds and individual working people and their families on a variety of legal fronts, including national, regional and local contract negotiations; election and campaign finance; dispute resolution through mediation, arbitration and litigation; family law matters; benefits law design and compliance issues; discrimination, overtime and unpaid wages, and other employment matters; prepaid legal services for union members; social security disability; and workers’ compensation matters in Philadelphia and beyond. Workers inspire us.

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