Jeffrey Smith:  

Life I'm married since '74. A daughter and two sons born from '82 to '86. Daughter is a regional director of the CT Humane Society, oldest son is travelling with a band, youngest son an engineer. After flunking/quitting out of Stony Brook in '66, I became a hippie for a few years. Following some well-publicized trouble with the law over marijuana, I went back to Suffolk Community College, then got an A.A. from Dutchess Community College (while in prison), an A.B. from Vassar College, an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. I practice class action law in mid-town Manhattan representing shareholders and investors against public companies and emplooyees and consumers. I live in Westchester County on the Hudson River, where I also sail when I find the time and am still renovating my house originally built in 1740, once owned by Clement Moore (of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas fame) and where Robert DeNiro and Dakota Fanning made a movie, Hide & Seek, that was released in January '05. I also have a place in Puerto Rico on the Caribbean that I love and where I own part of a small scuba dive boat operation. School Four high schools in four years. Go figure. I remember mythology and print shop from Mineola; a practical joke gone badly awry in Odessa; great English grammar and geometry in Bethpage; great physics and world literature in Port Jeff. It was a bit of a wild ride with some good friends, at least a couploe of whom I still see. College Started as a physics/math major who didn't want to be in school. That cured itself with academic probation suspension and a mid-to-late 60's stint as a hippie and drug convict who earned an Associate of Arts degree in p...Expand for more