Zachary Smith is an intellectual property attorney and litigator at Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP, where he helps businesses establish, protect, and enforce their intellectual property rights. In addition to his intellectual property work, he has handled complex disputes involving media and communications, employment, real estate, banking, white collar defense, election law, franchising, and commercial contracts, as well as domestic and international arbitrations.

Mr. Smith is one of the few attorneys trained in legal corpus linguistics, a data-driven method for interpreting legal texts using large language databases. He also brings a strong foundation in statistics, survey methodology, and quantitative analysis to his practice. He clerked for the Honorable Robert T. Numbers, II of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Mr. Smith earned his J.D. magna cum laude from BYU Law School and his B.S. in Political Science magna cum laude from Brigham Young University.