Butler Snow attorney N. Denver Smith has been selected to participate in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2025 Pathfinder program. Pathfinder participants are early-career emerging leaders with three to seven years of professional legal experience.
The Pathfinder Program brings together promising early-career attorneys from diverse backgrounds at LCLD Member organizations. This seven-month professional development initiative emphasizes foundational leadership and relationship-building skills. Participants have the chance to learn from leading figures in the legal profession, as well as experts in learning, development and executive coaching.
Smith is a member of Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation and Specialized Litigation group. With a background in artificial intelligence studies and private sector security, he enjoys using the analytical skills he has learned to help clients achieve their legal, professional, and business development goals. Smith strives to bring innovation into the legal community by challenging outdated principles that unreasonably inhibit client success. He has presented and written extensively on the use of AI in litigation, including his contribution to Butler Snow’s 2024 Litigation Update.
Smith is a member of the South Carolina Bar and Defense Research Institute (DRI), where he was recently named 2024-2025 Chair of the Young Lawyers Substantive Law Liaison Committee. He also is active in the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce’s Charleston Young Professionals organization and serves on the Board of Directors for the Palmetto Society of Human Resources Management.
Smith earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Coastal Carolina University and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of South Carolina. During law school, he was a Judicial Extern for Justice Kaye Hearn of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
