About Harper Smith

Harper Smith is a Personal Injury Attorney at Rubenstein Law, based in Brooklyn. She has litigated cases on behalf of seriously injured New Yorkers since 2011 and is known for exceptional written and oral advocacy, including winning appeals that have created favorable case law for plaintiffs in New York's Appellate Division. She earned her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma Honors College in 2005 and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2009. Her practice focuses on complex liability matters, including premises liability, construction accidents, traumatic brain injuries, wrongful death, motor vehicle accidents, negligent security, and police brutality cases. She joined Rubenstein Law in 2024 after serving as a Senior Associate at Rubenstein & Rynecki.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Rubenstein Law Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Rubenstein Law Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Massachusetts jury returned a $1 billion punitive verdict against Philip Morris in 2022 over the lung cancer death of Barbara Fontaine, a case handled in part by Rubenstein Law attorney Kevin Donovan; the punitive award was later reduced to $56 million, a figure the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld in April 2026.

Middlesex County Superior Court, Massachusetts · 2022Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$20.7 millionVerdictTop 20 in Massachusetts · #16

A Middlesex County jury awarded Joseph Reppucci and his wife $20.7 million after finding that R.J. Reynolds and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. bore responsibility for the oropharyngeal cancer he developed following decades of smoking their cigarettes.

Middlesex County Superior Court, Massachusetts · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$6 millionVerdict

A Miami-Dade jury awarded $6 million to the widow of Oscar Cabrera, a construction worker killed in February 2017 when a remotely operated Metromover train struck a boom lift near the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. station while he was working on the Brightline terminal project.

Miami-Dade County, Florida · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$4.8 millionVerdict

A Miami-Dade jury returned a $4,877,775 verdict for Juan Del Valle, who slipped on water from a leaking produce refrigeration unit at a Winn-Dixie in Miami Lakes and underwent three spinal surgeries, leaving him with permanent hardware in his spine.

Miami-Dade County, Florida · 2018Slip & FallRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Brooklyn Law School
B.A., 2009
University of Oklahoma Honors College
Undergraduate, 2005

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
New York State Trial Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Star (2018, 2022)

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Leesfield & Partners
Leesfield & Partners
$95 Million Verdict After Drunk Driver Overserved at Miami Bar Killed a Woman and Injured Her Brother
Goldberg & Rosen
Goldberg & Rosen
$1.02 billion · Champlain Towers Collapse: $1.021 Billion for 98 Victims in Under a Year
Gerson and Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers
Gerson and Schwartz Accident & Injury Lawyers
~$24.8 million · $37.5 Million Verdict for Miami Lawyer Who Lost His Tongue to Tobacco Cancer
Amanda Demanda Injury Lawyers
Amanda Demanda Injury Lawyers
$43 Million Broward Verdict for Couple Left in Comas by Drunk Driver
Steinger, Greene & Feiner
Steinger, Greene & Feiner
$3 Million Verdict for Handyman Who Lost Use of Dominant Hand After Tripping Over Hidden Wire Mesh

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.