Asher Smith is the Litigation Program Director for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Previously, as General Counsel for Litigation at the PETA Foundation, his cases included actions under the Endangered Species Act against roadside zoos abusively keeping protected animals, constitutional lawsuits on behalf of both animals and humans, and false advertising claims challenging the deceptive marketing of animal products as humane. He won precedent-setting victories against multiple exhibitors featured on the Netflix show Tiger King, as well as against major research universities and some of the country’s largest humane-marketed food brands. Smith joined the PETA Foundation in 2018 after working for the law firm Paul, Weiss on matters including multibillion-dollar securities litigation and the fight for gay marriage in the deep south and at the Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Yale Law School.