About Perry Scott Smith
Perry Scott Smith Jr. practiced law for many years after finishing formal learn about in the mid-1980s. He earned a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1985 after completing undergraduate work in biology and schooling at Loyola University Chicago. His academic background combined scientific training and study room experience before he turned to the law.
He began his legal career in 1985 on the Lake County State's Attorney’s Office. That early role placed him within the day-to-day work of a county prosecutor and supplied trial experience from the outset. In 1991 he served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. Those public-sector positions mark the first decade of a profession that moved between government service and private practice.
Over time Smith broadened the range of forums wherein he practices. He is licensed in Illinois and in several federal courts, which includes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He has handled things that required appearances in trial courts and appellate venues.
Smith has been active in local and state bar organizations. He held a series of officer roles in the Lake County Bar Association among 2007 and 2013, including treasurer, 2d vice president, first vice chairman, president in 2011–2012, and immediate past president in 2012–2013. He served as an Assembly Delegate to the Illinois State Bar Association from 2007 to 2013. On the foundation aspect, he has been a trustee of the Lake County Bar Foundation since 2017 and has served as its treasurer starting in 2018.
His résumé reflects a mix of public service and community involvement rather than an unmarried marquee case or countrywide profile. That mix indicates in the variety of roles he accepted through the years and within the way he has stayed engaged with the Lake County legal community. He has maintained ties to local establishments while maintaining the choice of federal practice open thru his courtroom admissions.
Smith presently practices at Wysocki & Smith. He represents clients in state and federal hearings and continues to participate in appellate things as allowed by his admissions, focusing his practice on litigated matters in those forums.
