Meet Allan David Smith, Your Local Social Security Disability Lawyer

Personal Injury / Motor Vehicle Collisions. Complex medical litigation

Workers' Compensation

Social Security Disability

for over 38 years, Allen has focused on helping those with disabling conditions, workers comp claims, and those injured by the negligence of others. Allen Smith is a third-generation Fayetteville, North Carolina, resident. His grandfather was the manager of Sears in downtown Fayetteville for 35 years. His dad, Ritchie Smith, is the founding partner of Smith Dempster. Allen was born at Cape Fear Valley Hospital (now a medical center) in 1961. He attended public schools in Fayetteville and graduated from Terry Sanford Senior High School. He received his undergraduate degree in 1984 from the University of North Carolina. He then graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School in 1987, where he joined his father's law practice in Fayetteville. For over 28 years, he has focused on helping those injured by the negligence of others and in workplace injuries. He has also served as state counsel for the National Home School Legal Defense Association.

Allen’s long-time ties to the community give him a great advantage in understanding the local issues that pop up in litigation, including local knowledge and expertise in knowing local juries in a way that is most effectively done by local attorneys with close ties and long-time experience in the local community and the local legal community. Allen and Andy Dempster are the senior partners in the law firm and have been practicing together for 30 years, and their skill sets complement each other to give our clients a full breadth of legal and local experience and expertise. 

Throughout his legal career, Allen has handled complex and complicated tort litigation, leading to multiple recoveries on behalf of clients in excess of one million dollars. He also handles small cases and treats them with just as much enthusiasm and energy as his bigger cases. He has vast experience litigating serious brain injury cases and back, neck, and other debilitating injuries. Allen has handled serious injury cases involving the largest employers in Cumberland County and outside the county, including the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County (including the school system), Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Walmart, Purolator, Black & Decker, the multiple poultry plants in the area, and Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

Allen focuses on Social Security Disability claims, helping literally hundreds of people in Fayetteville and Southeastern North Carolina get the benefits they deserve.