Full Biography: Freedom S.N. Smith

Freedom has experience managing environmental liability in business transactions; hiring and working with environmental consultants to achieve client objectives; litigating cost recovery or contribution claims against owners or operators for contamination under a wide variety of regulatory programs, including CERCLA/SUPERFUND; and handling environmental insurance or coverage claims. Freedom has worked with policyholders, carriers, and regulatory agencies in resolving a variety of coverage matters, policyholder disputes, property & casualty coverage issues, insurance recovery, and bad faith actions.

Freedom also has experience representing large manufacturers in product liability actions involving claims of wrongful death, breach of contract, and subrogation issues.

Prior to joining Ice Miller LLP in 2005, Freedom served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Andrew S. Effron of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. Similarly, Freedom served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Patricia Riley of the Indiana Court of Appeals. Freedom also clerked as a Honors Law Clerk for the Washington, D.C. office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel—Solid Waste and Emergency Response Law Office, in 2003, and served as a legal clerk in the appellate section of the United States Attorneys Office, in 2002.

Freedom graduated, cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington in 2001, and was a Managing Editor for the Indiana Law Journal, and a Moot Court Quarterfinalist. Freedom graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 2001 where she received her bachelor of arts in computer science and biology, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Freedom currently serves on DePauw University's Science Advisory Board.

Freedom is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and American Bar Associations. She is admitted to practice in the State of Indiana, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.