Arnold & Smith PLLC

The Charlotte, North Carolina law firm of Arnold & Smith, PLLC represents clients in personal injury, criminal defense, DWI, family law, and general litigation matters. Attorneys Matthew Arnold, J. Bradley Smith, and their associates have decades of legal experience with car and motorcycle accidents, truck crashes, nursing home negligence, dog bites, slip and fall injuries, workers' compensation claims, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury cases. Arnold & Smith, PLLC defends clients who are accused of criminal offenses and traffic citations. This includes misdemeanor and felony criminal offenses such as violent crimes, gun and weapon crimes, driving or boating while impaired (BWI), drug crimes, as well as driver's license restoration cases. The law firm's experienced family law attorneys handle a wide range of matters, from divorce and prenuptial agreements to child custody, child support, adoption, domestic violence, alimony and spousal support. They also handle special lawsuits under North Carolina's 'heart balm' tort law by one spouse against the other for alienation of affection.The law firm co-founders Matthew Arnold and J. Bradley Smith are both Charlotte natives. Attorney Arnold was awarded a full academic scholarship to the University of North Carolina Law School in Chapel Hill. He tried his first case even before earning his law degree, as permitted under North Carolina law. He is a member of the Mecklenberg County and North Carolina Bar Associations, American Association for Justice, Justice William Bobbitt Inn of Court in Charlotte, and serves on the Belmont Abbey College Alumni Board of Directors. Attorney Smith is the recipient of numerous National Trial Lawyers Association Awards, and was named in 2011 by the North Carolina Weekly as one of the state's Emerging Legal Leaders. He is a certified operator of the device used by law enforcement officers to test blood alcohol content (BAC), and also certified by the National Highway Safety Transportation Administration for DWI detection.