Smith LaCien LLP Trial Lawyers - Chicago
Smith LaCien LLP is a Chicago trial firm working out of Three First National Plaza on West Madison Street, led by named partners Todd A. Smith and Brian LaCien. The practice is built around serious injury work rather than high-volume claim handling, covering car, truck and construction accidents, medical malpractice, birth injuries, brain and spinal cord injuries, aviation and train crashes, and wrongful death.
The firm reports more than 3 billion dollars recovered for clients to date. Its published case list includes a 1.55 billion dollar class action settlement over defective Takata airbags, in which Todd Smith served as co-lead counsel, a 93 million dollar aviation settlement, a 20 million dollar medical malpractice settlement, and a 19 million dollar jury verdict in a fatal truck collision. Consultations are free, the firm takes injury cases on a no-fee-unless-you-win basis, and it serves clients in Spanish as well as English.
What people praise
- Named partners Todd A. Smith and Brian LaCien work the cases directly
- Reports over 3 billion dollars recovered, including a 1.55 billion dollar Takata airbag class action with Todd Smith as co-lead counsel
- Trial record spans aviation, truck, medical malpractice and product liability, not just routine car claims
- Free consultation with no fee unless the case is won
- Service available in Spanish, and coverage beyond Chicago into Aurora, Naperville and Portage Park
Our take: Smith LaCien is a small-bench firm that takes complex, high-stakes cases, and its published results are the reason to look at it rather than its Google presence. A 1.55 billion dollar co-lead role in a national product liability class action and a 93 million dollar aviation settlement are the kind of work most local injury firms never touch. The trade-off is visibility: with 13 Google reviews it has by far the thinnest public review record on this page, so you cannot read the crowd here the way you can with the larger firms below. The reviews that do exist are consistent about communication, and one is from an attorney who hired the firm after his own injury. Treat this as a firm to call when your case is severe or likely to go to trial, and use the free consultation to ask which named partner would actually handle it.
Three First National Plaza, 70 W Madison St Ste 2250, Chicago, IL 60602
