Scott B. Smith, Smith, Ball, Báez & Prather Florida Injury Lawyers
Scott B. Smith, Esquire is a very highly accomplished and award-winning Florida personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer with many years of extensive professional experience. Scott is a very knowledgeable, sophisticated, fierce, tenacious, seasoned and battle-tested trial lawyer whose reputation is built on powerful advocacy, unwavering commitment to justice and uncompromising dedication to his clients. He is widely recognized for his commanding courtroom presence, elite professionalism and uncanny ability to handle complex and high-stakes personal injury and wrongful death cases. Scott is very well-known as a relentless and dogged Florida trial lawyer who thrives in high-pressure litigation and is known for taking on difficult cases and fighting for his clients without pause or hesitation. Fearless in the courtroom and steadfast in preparation, he is a powerful advocate and legal force who pursues huge results for his injured and harmed clients with the highest levels of intensity, strength, advocacy, strategy and discipline. Scott is considered and widely recognized as one of the best, most experienced, most successful, most prominent and most respected civil trial lawyers throughout all of Florida and beyond.Scott Smith has been admitted to and has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1998. In addition, Scott has been Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Civil Trial Law since 2008. Scott graduated from The Florida State College of Law in 1998 following his graduation from Florida State University in 1995. Scott attended the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1991 – 1993 where he was a member of the Air Force Falcons Football team as a linebacker. While in law school, Scott was active in all law school classes and activities related to civil trial law, trial advocacy, the rules of evidence and the rules of civil procedure.
Scott is highly respected and very favorably regarded by his clients and those in the Florida legal community. He has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell's Peer Review Rating process for more than twenty years. An AV rating is Martindale's most prestigious peer review rating. It takes into account an attorney's ability and ethics as well as confidential opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. This honor is bestowed only upon lawyers who exude extraordinary legal capability and adhere to strict ethics while practicing law.
Scott is recognized in the highly respected publication Best Lawyers in the legal areas of Personal Injury Protection – Plaintiffs and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs. Scott has been listed in Best Lawyers every year since 2013. In 2017, Scott was named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida. Every attorney listed in Best Lawyers in Florida has earned recognition through Best Lawyers' rigorous annual peer-review process. Only a very small fraction of trial lawyers in Florida have been named “Lawyer of the Year.”
Scott is also recognized as a Super Lawyer by the esteemed Super Lawyers publication. Scott has been listed as a Super Lawyer every year since 2013. This award is given to only five percent of the lawyers in Florida and demonstrates excellence in the practice of law. In addition, Scott has also been listed in the Top 100 Miami Super Lawyers in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. He was further listed in the Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers Top List in 2025.
Scott is also a member and/or has been inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum which is a collection of the Top Trial Lawyers in America. Established in 1993, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum are some of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. Fewer than 1% of lawyers in the United States are members. Scott qualifies many times over due to the more than 100 cases that he has settled for or obtained a verdict of $1,000,000.00 or more.
Scott has also been recognized and seen many times throughout various media outlets, such as The Palm Beach Post, The Sun-Sentinel, The Stuart News, NBC News WPTV 5, ABC News WPBF 25 and CBS News WPEC 12. Scott was also featured on The Today Show for his representation of the Wilson family following the tragic and wrongful death of their son in Wellington, Palm Beach County, Florida. Scott has further been featured in several legal publications, including Attorney at Law Magazine, Best Lawyers, Jupiter Magazine, Palm Beach Gardens Magazine and Palm Beach Illustrated. Scott has also handled and been lead counsel in many high profile personal injury and wrongful death cases that have been covered extensively by the media. In representing the Wilson family, in representing a father who lost his wife and two children in an impaired driver accident and in representing a young boy who lost his Mom, Dad and older brother in a tragic accident caused by a drunk driver, Scott's representation of such clients has been high profile throughout Florida, with the highly tragic Wilson matter even garnering national media attention.
Scott Smith is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar and has been for more than fifteen years. Board Certification is the highest level of evaluation by The Florida Bar of an attorney's competency and experience. Certification identifies Mr. Smith as an attorney with extensive knowledge, skills, and proficiency in civil trial law. It distinguishes him as a specialist in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death. Of Florida's more than 80,000 attorneys, only about 4,200 are Board Certified. He initially became Board Certified in 2008 and has been recertified in 2013, 2018 and 2023. Scott is considered one of the best and most experienced Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyers in all of Florida.
Scott is very well-known and tremendously respected as a fierce, intense and fearless Florida trial lawyer. He is considered one of the best and most skilled trial lawyers and civil litigators in the entire State of Florida. Scott has been described as having “full command and control of the courtroom.” He is known throughout all of Florida as a “courageous and unflinching litigator who never backs down from a fight.” He is well-known for being a relentless courtroom advocate, a battle-tested trial lawyer, a legal workhorse, a tenacious litigator and a very powerful voice for his injured and grieving clients. He has been labeled “a skilled, sharp, focused, disciplined, tireless and uncompromising trial attorney.” His cross-examinations at trial are well-known throughout the Florida legal community and have proven to be incredibly effective in fighting for his clients. A former 1st team All-State linebacker in Florida, Scott is tough, relentless and determined in fighting for every one of his clients. He is simply known across all of Florida as a “real trial lawyer.” His reputation is of a trial lawyer that fights to the bitter end to obtain the largest possible recovery and compensation for his clients. As is evidenced by his inclusion in both Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers since 2013, Scott is consistently considered and recognized by his peers and the general public as one of the very best and top trial lawyers in the State of Florida, and in a very small and select group of the absolute best and most experienced personal injury and wrongful death lawyers in Florida.
During his career, Scott has resolved thousands of personal injury and wrongful death cases by way of settlement or jury verdict in Florida and in various other states. He has been lead counsel or co-counsel on more than one hundred (100) personal injury and wrongful death cases that have resulted in settlements or jury verdicts in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00). Amazingly, Scott has litigated personal injury and/or wrongful death cases in more than fifty (50) of Florida's sixty-seven (67) counties and in six other states (Georgia, South Carolina, New York, Delaware, New Jersey and Tennessee). More amazing is that Scott has served as lead counsel in jury trials in nine (9) different counties in Florida (Palm Beach County, Martin County, St. Lucie County, Indian River County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Lee County, Pinellas County and Volusia County). Scott has also conducted jury trials to verdict in Federal Court at the United States Federal Courthouses located in West Palm Beach, FL and Fort Pierce, FL (both located in the U.S. Southern District of Florida).
Throughout his lengthy and award-winning career as a trial lawyer in Florida, Scott has filed more than a thousand personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits for his injured or grieving clients. He has litigated personal injury and wrongful death cases with nearly every insurance company that issues automobile insurance policies in America. He has litigated with auto insurance companies such as State Farm, Allstate, GEICO, Progressive, Nationwide, Farmers, Liberty Mutual, USAA, Garrison, Travelers, AIG and Chubb and many others. Scott has also filed suit against and litigated extensively with some of the largest corporations in the world such as General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Daimler-Chrysler, Goodyear, Bridgestone, Firestone, Cooper Tire, Sears, Electrolux, EZ-Go, Crown Equipment Corporation, as well as many others. Further, Scott has litigated and even tried cases against governmental entities such as The United States of America, the State of Florida, the Florida Department of Transportation, Palm Beach County, Martin County, the School District of Palm Beach County and numerous others. Moreover, with the increased popularity of rideshare or transportation network companies, Scott has also litigated many matters with Uber, Lyft and other companies that provide a rideshare or transportation service. Last and perhaps most significantly, Scott has handled hundreds of serious personal injury and wrongful death matters arising from accidents, injuries and deaths caused by a negligent commercial motor vehicle driver or a negligent trucking company. Scott has filed lawsuits against and litigated with most of the largest trucking companies in Florida and throughout the United States of America. He regularly speaks and lectures about handling cases against truck drivers and commercial motor vehicle carriers due to his vast experience in successfully handling such cases. Scott is consistently considered and recognized as one of the best and most experienced commercial truck accident lawyers in the State of Florida.
Upon graduation from the Florida State College of Law in 1998, Scott began his professional legal career as a trial lawyer with the 19th Judicial Circuit's State Attorney's Office in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee Counties. Scott was an assistant state attorney (ASA prosecutor) for the 19th Circuit in Martin County. After nearly two years serving as a prosecutor and after obtaining a significant amount of courtroom and jury trial experience, Scott began working with a personal injury and wrongful death (civil litigation) law firm in West Palm Beach, Florida. Scott was an associate trial attorney at such law firm for approximately 9 years before he started his own law firm of Scott B. Smith, P.L. A couple years later, Scott added two partners to the law firm to form Smith, Ivey & Fronrath. In 2011, Scott merged Smith, Ivey & Fronrath with his prior law firm to form the law firm of Lytal, Reiter, Smith, Ivey & Fronrath. Scott was a co-managing partner of such firm for 8 years until he founded and started Scott Smith Injury Law which he has grown into the powerhouse Florida personal injury and wrongful death law firm of Smith, Ball, Baez & Prather Florida Injury Lawyers. Scott is the founding and managing partner of such Palm Beach County based Florida personal injury and wrongful death law firm. Since founding and forming Smith, Ball, Baez & Prather, he and his partners have grown the law firm into one of the most successful and well-known personal injury and wrongful death law firms in the entire State of Florida. In addition to regularly being recognized as one of the best and most elite trial lawyers in all of Florida, Scott has also been recognized as and is widely considered as one of the best managing partners in Florida as well. The main office for Smith, Ball, Baez & Prather is located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL on PGA Boulevard and the firm has additional offices located in Port St. Lucie on St. Lucie Boulevard and in Boca Raton on Glades Road. As evidenced by Scott's history of handling personal injury and wrongful death matters in nearly all of Florida's 67 counties, the law firm of Smith, Ball, Baez & Prather Florida Injury Lawyers also handles personal injury and wrongful death matters all across the entire State of Florida.
In addition to all of his professional work and success, Scott has also been very involved in the South Florida legal community. Scott is a past-President of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and also a past-President of the Palm Beach County Justice Association. Prior to being the President of both bar associations, Scott served on each Association's Board of Directors for a lengthy period of time. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Florida Justice Association and was previously the President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Florida Justice Association. Scott has also served on the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee for The Florida Bar and has served two times as the Chairperson of the Personal Injury and Wrongful Death CLE Committee for the Palm Beach County Bar Association. He has also been chosen to speak at the Palm Beach County Bar Association's annual Bench-Bar Conference numerous times on topics and issues involving personal injury and wrongful death matters. Scott has been asked by the Florida Justice Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association and the Palm Beach County Justice Association to speak about commercial motor vehicle accidents and commercial motor vehicle cases because of his vast experience in handling such matters and because of his acute and keen knowledge of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and how Florida has adopted such federal laws to commercial truck drivers and to both interstate and intrastate motor carriers (trucking companies) in Florida.
In the South Florida, Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast communities Scott is also very active. He is a former assistant state attorney (ASA) and prosecutor in the 19th Judicial Circuit in Martin County and St. Lucie County. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Palm Beach County Chapter of the March of Dimes. Scott and his wife Molly have participated in and donated to many causes of and for the March of Dimes. Scott is currently the President of the Jupiter Mustangs Youth Tackle Football and Cheer Program. He has also coached multiple Pop Warner youth football teams, recreational baseball teams and youth basketball teams in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter. Scott also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Palm Beach Gardens Police and Fire Rescue Foundation.
Scott and his wife Molly were married in 2002 and have four children, Sandy, Tucker, Charlie and Harrison. They live in Jupiter Farms where they are blessed to have dogs, cats, horses and donkeys on their farm and property. In his limited free time, Scott loves to spend time with his family, coach youth sports, boat, fish and golf. He is also an avid reader. Scott considers his greatest successes to be that of a devout husband and father, a man of honor and integrity, and a real trial lawyer.