Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth

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Our lawyers represent national businesses such as Ford Motor Company, Kia Motors America, Hyundai Motor America, Jaguar Motor Cars, Mack Trucks, International Truck & Engine Corporation, American Honda Motor Company, Illinois State Medical Insurance Company, Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC is one of Chicago’s pre-eminent trial practice boutiques. Founded in 1995, the firm successfully tries difficult, high exposure cases in the country’s most challenging jurisdictions. The firm is known as one of the “go to” firms in Chicago for particularly difficult or high stakes cases and, since its founding, no firm in Chicago has tried as many complex cases as successfully as DBMS. Two partners have been ranked by Chicago Lawyer magazine as among the top 20 tort defense lawyers in Chicago and four partners have been elected as Fellows of The American College of Trial Lawyers.

On November 16, 2010, Richard B. Foster and Christopher J. Rados received a not guilty jury verdict in favor of their client, a cardiologist, who was accused a failing to give Coumadin therapy to a patient with Atrial Fibrillation. Read More.
On October 29, 2010, a jury in Cobb County, Georgia, outside Atlanta, returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Ford Motor Company, represented by Mark Boyle and John Krivicich, in an alleged "seatback collapse" case involving the death of a 76 year-old Georgia woman. Read More.
On October 8, 2010, the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, affirmed a jury verdict in favor of a medical corporation and an ophthalmologist represented by Richard B. Foster, Karen Kies DeGrand and Timothy L. Hogan. Read More.
On October 19, 2010, a Cook County jury returned a defense verdict for a pain management specialist represented by Sherri M. Arrigo and Cortney S. Closey. Read More.
Mark M. Burden and Stetson F. Atwood were invited speakers on October 22, 2010 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Dermatological Surgeons here in Chicago. They presented on how to reduce the chances of being named as a defendant in a medical negligence case.
On October 20 Richard Foster gave a presentation to over 130 attorneys at the Chicago Bar Association on Evidentiary Foundations and the new Illinois Rules of Evidence.
On October 12, 2010 Donald J. Brown, Jr., John J. Duffy and Karen K. DeGrand presented at CNA Insurance a Risk Management seminar for CNA insured attorneys.
On September 15, 2010 US News & World Report ranked Donohue Brown Mathewson & Smyth LLC a Tier 1 law firm in the areas of Medical and Legal Malpractice defense work.
Dick Donohue and Sherri Arrigo were invited speakers regarding "Legal Issues and How to Stay Out of Trouble" at the October 2010 Illinois Section The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists seminar.
Sherri M. Arrigo has been elected to the Board of Directors of The Society of Trial Lawyers
DBMS congratulates Sherri M. Arrigo, Norman J. Barry, Jr., Donald J. Brown, Jr., Mark M. Burden, Karen K. DeGrand, Richard H. Donohue, John J. Duffy, Richard B. Foster, J. Kent Mathewson, and Robert W. Smyth, Jr. for being recognized by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in Illinois for 2011. Timothy L. Hogan and Todd J. Stalmack have been named 2011 Rising Stars by the same publication.