Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Bolton Smith
Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Bolton Smith assists domestic and international clients navigating their most complex litigation matters, focusing on commercial, corporate, and securities disputes. He is well-positioned to advise clients on pre-litigation resolution, motions practice, discovery disputes, and litigation risk.
He also has a strong pro bono practice, focusing on representing amici curiae in civil rights cases in both federal and state courts.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Bolton worked as an associate at an Am Law 10 firm in New York, where he focused on commercial litigation. Bolton also worked as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James C. Dever III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. While attending the University of Virginia School of Law, Bolton served as an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review.
Representative experience
Represented defendant companies in the cryptocurrency and digital asset space against putative securities class action lawsuits.*
Represented global shipping company in corporate law action in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, obtaining pre-trial dismissal of all claims.*
Advised natural gas company on internal investigation related to breach of fiduciary duty and securities allegations.*
Represented company in employment termination dispute with former executive, successfully winning dismissal of all claims.*
Represented gaming company in mass individual arbitration actions.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, 2022
- M.A. in German and European Studies, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 2018
- B.A. in Political Science and German Studies, Davidson College, Magna Cum Laude, 2016
Bar admissions and qualifications
- District of Columbia
- New York
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit