Linda Smith is a partner in O'Melveny’s Century City office, a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice, and has been named a “Top Woman Litigator” by the National Law Journal and a “Top Woman Litigator” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal every year since the list's inception in 2004. According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, Ms. Smith is one of the two “go-to lawyers at O'Melveny” for complex litigation.

Ms. Smith specializes in high-stakes litigation that goes to trial, and has been lead trial counsel in litigation involving antitrust law suits, securities fraud, SEC enforcement actions, commercial disputes, professional liability, healthcare, oil spills, disputes between the major entertainment studios, and litigation over microprocessors and software implementation. Her litigation experience includes both private parties and government entities.