Prior to coming to K&L Gates, Mr. Smerage worked as a post-graduate research fellow for Associate Dean / Professor of Law Linda Sandstrom Simard at Suffolk University Law School. He assisted Prof. Simard in the development, research, and editing of a paper on transnational class action certification. During law school, he interned for the Hon. William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Hon. Robert J. McKenna, Jr., of the Boston Municipal Court. Mr. Smerage was a summer associate at K&L Gates during the summer of 2008.