Tony Smith is a partner in the Kilpatrick Stockton's Litigation Practice Group where he concentrates his practice in Construction and Public Contracts. He has substantial experience in construction contract negotiation, arbitration, and litigation, both domestically and internationally.

Tony has been practicing law since 1973 and he has substantial experience as lead trial attorney in large, complex, multi-party, construction-related disputes. He has represented construction clients including EPC contractors, general contractors, owners, architects/engineers, subcontractors, sureties and insurers.

Tony is also a member of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He has served as an advocate or arbitrator for cases in, among others, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Tony has also published and presented studies and papers on many topics of interest and concern to the international arbitration community.

He is a member of the International, American and Kentucky Bar Associations. Tony is also a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and the Centre for International Legal Studies, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the London Court of International Arbitration. He is recognized in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003-2004, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2003-2004 and in Atlanta Magazine/Georgia Super Lawyer Special Edition, 2004.

Recent Presentations

• Panel moderator for a presentation on “The Combined Sewer Overflow Dilemma” at the 2003 Second Global Project Superconference in London;
• “Termination of Construction Projects,” presented at the 2003 International Bar Association’s Committee T meeting in San Francisco, California;
• “Law Applicable to Arbitrations, Enforcing International Agreements to Arbitration, and ADR,” a panel discussion for the 2002 Center for International Legal Studies’ Second Conference on International Arbitration and ADR, in Salzburg, Austria;
• “A Comparison of Dispute Review Boards and Adjudication,” presented at the 2001 International Bar Association’s Business Law International Conference in Cancun, Mexico; and
• “What are the Sanctions for Failing to Obey an Order for Interim Relief?” presented at the 2000 Law Conference on Arbitrating International Disputes in the New Millennium in for the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria.