W. Thomas Smith, who served as managing partner of the personal injury law firm Sugarman & Sugarman PC for two and a half decades, is retiring at the end of May. The 64-year-old spent his entire legal career at Sugarman, much of it focused on product liability cases. He joined the firm in 1977 after working at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for about a year following his graduation from Boston University School of Law. Prior to his ATLA tenure, he didn't necessarily see himself joining...