Amerikansk medierettsadvokat. Representerte tidligere CIA-agent Valerie Plame Wilson i forbindelse med utgivelsen av hennes bok «Fair Game» og Hollywood-filmen med samme tittel. Plame omtalte, i sine memoarer, advokaten som «en seig ytringsfrihetsadvokat som gjette prosjektet gjennom betydelige komplikasjoner». Smallmann har vært involvert i en rekke film og bokutgivelser og arbeidet en periode for SKUPs amerikanske søsterorganisasjon IRE.

David B Smallman represented former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson for publication of her book FAIR GAME and the Hollywood movie of the same title directed by Doug Liman (BOURNE IDENTITY). Plame described Smallman in the introduction to her memoir as a “tenacious First Amendment lawyer who had shepherded [the] project through its significant and sometimes overwhelming complications.” Smallman is a writer/producer/director of film and transmedia content (SPIES, LIES & SURPRISE) for Triangle Pavilion Media, based in Boulder, Colorado. He is also managing director of Smallman + Snyder Law Group PLLC, a boutique firm with offices in New York and Florida that specializes in media, entertainment, and intellectual property law, and provides global risk management and legal advice to investigative journalists and journalism organizations, filmmakers, publishers, authors, production companies, venture capital firms and insurance companies. For more than eighteen years, Smallman has been pro bono outside counsel to Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) and is contributing legal editor of The IRE Journal. His law firm belongs to the Media Law Resource Center (Defense Counsel Section) and the Online Media Legal Network/Berkman Center, Harvard University.

Smallman is currently writing a book entitled: Stealth Reality: The Weaponization of Information (forthcoming 2014).