Lt. Col., U.S. Army (Ret.) 
Cloyd A. Smith, Esq. The Second Career
Some lawyers learned to fight in law school. He didn't.
Cloyd Smith served 24 years in the United States Army — Iraq, Afghanistan, and a career's worth of decisions made under real pressure — before he opened his own firm in Fredericksburg. In his first year of trust and estate litigation, he argued and won before the Supreme Court of Virginia, a stage most attorneys never reach in an entire career.
“Your problem is you care too much and you fight too hard.”— Opposing counsel, after the judge held him in contempt
His clients consider that the whole point.
