Smith, William B.

D. Mark Jackson represents clients in commercial litigation, product liability, toxic tort, fire litigation, employment law, and civil rights matters. His product liability practice includes medical devices, semiconductor fabrication tools, consumer products, motor vehicles, agricultural products, respiratory protection equipment, and industrial machinery. His toxic tort practice includes benzene and other petroleum hydrocarbons, mold, asbestos, and silica. He represents clients at both the trial court and appellate level.

Mark was recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyers " Rising Star" in 2009 and 2010.

Mark earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary. He received a B.A. from Willamette University, where he completed the pre-medicine program, consisting of four years of hard science, including physics, chemistry, and biology, as well mathematics and computer science coursework.

Before litigating, Mark clerked for two years at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges, assisting the Honorable Paul Mapes in San Francisco and Chief Judge Daniel Sarno in Newport News, Virginia. Before that, Mark practiced for almost two years at the Peninsula Legal Aid Clinic.

His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, and FindLaw’s Writ