Eon R. Smith
The register holds him at his own Manhattan firm; the rideshare page belongs to a different firm on Long Island where he is listed as of counsel, and names another lawyer throughout. His own record is genuinely unusual — a former Manhattan prosecutor who spent two years in Afghanistan as a US State Department rule-of-law technical director.
The bar record
We read Eon R. Smith in the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Detail Report. Only the shaded green row is generated by the court; the rows marked attorney-supplied were filed by him.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system’s own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration’s database. It further states that an attorney’s good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. So “currently registered” is the court’s own fact. “No record of discipline” is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven’t. That is why the discipline figure above is a dash and not a tick.
And it tells you which office to ask. Eon R. Smith was admitted through the 2nd Department, so that is the department a reader would need to write to. Of the twenty-one lawyers on our New York pages, fifteen were admitted through the Second and six through the First. No other register we use sends you somewhere else to finish the check — and none of the others tells you where.
What the record shows
OCA records his business name as Smith & Company, PLLC at 140 Broadway in Manhattan. The biography supplied is published by Solinsky & Co. in Westbury, on its attorneys of counsel page, and the rideshare page on that site names Daniel Justus Solinsky in every paragraph that names anyone. Smith is not mentioned on it.Verified
Of counsel arrangements are ordinary and neither firm is hiding anything. But a reader arriving at that rideshare page would have no way to connect it to him, and we are not going to imply the connection the page itself does not make.Verified
His published record does not look like anyone else’s here: Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, then civil litigation at an asbestos and personal injury firm, then more than two years in Afghanistan on a US Department of State rule-of-law programme, leaving as Technical Director.Verified
His registration is next due in December 2026 — the second-earliest renewal on these pages.Verified
What the firm says
He says he brings over 20 years of civil and criminal trial experience, is admitted to practise in the US and the Caribbean, and has handled matters in federal and state courts in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Guyana and Trinidad.Reported
He says he received his undergraduate and law degrees from St. John’s University — the register confirms the law school — and was a research assistant to Professor Michael A. Simons on a Vanderbilt Law Review article.Reported
He says he was a National Trial Competition champion, won multiple Best Advocate awards, and mentors and speaks to young people in New York City and Hartford.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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