{"id":240234,"date":"2026-04-21T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:57:08","slug":"h-t-smith-named-professor-of-the-year-at-fiu-law-the-florida-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240234\/","title":{"rendered":"H. T. Smith named \u2018Professor of the\u00a0Year\u2019 at FIU Law \u2013 The Florida Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                H. T. Smith named &#8216;Professor of the\u00a0Year&#8217; at FIU Law<\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-558079\" class=\"wp-image-558079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/H.T.-Smith-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"H.T. Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"187\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-558079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">H.T. Smith<\/p>\n<p>Professor H.T. Smith, the founding director of the Trial Advocacy Program at <a href=\"https:\/\/law.fiu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida International University College of Law<\/a>, continues to be recognized for his excellence in legal education as he was recently voted &#8220;Professor of the Year&#8221; at FIU Law for the 2025-2026 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is consistently listed in\u00a0The Best Lawyers in America\u00a0(including the 2025 edition) and was\u00a0recently honored with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP3_MHkjlbd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-hveid=\"CAEQAw\">2025 Criminal Justice Award<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Miami-Dade Bar. He also recently helped lead the FIU Law trial team to victory in The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/the-florida-bar-news\/fiu-captures-chester-bedell-mock-trial-competition-crown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Championship<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H. T. Smith named &#8216;Professor of the\u00a0Year&#8217; at FIU Law H.T. Smith Professor H.T. Smith, the founding director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-240234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}