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 January 14, 2010, a Cook County jury returned a not guilty verdict for a pathologist represented by Sherri M. Arrigo. Read more.

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 2010.

DBMS congratulates Karen Kies DeGrand for being named a Super Lawyer in Illinois for her appellate practice in the Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers January/February 2010 edition.

On December 10, 2009 a Cook County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of the firm's client, a bariatric surgeon represented by Sherri M. Arrigo and Anthony M. Pinto. Read more.

On November 20, 2009, a jury in Perry County, Illinois rendered a verdict in favor of Ford Motor Company represented by Mark H.Boyle, John A. Krivicich and Charles S. Ofstein against plaintiff after a month-long trial. Read more.

On November 17, 2009 a Cook County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of the firm's client, a plastic surgeon, represented by Anthony M. Pinto. Read more.

Sherri M. Arrigo was recently elected to The Society of Trial Lawyers.

On August 4, 2009, the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, reversed the Circuit Court of Cook County’s decision asserting personal jurisdiction over an Oregon manufacturer of snow grooming-tractors, represented by John A. Krivicich, Karen DeGrand and Bryan Kirsch. Read more.

John A. Krivicich has been invited to speak at the American Conference Institute’s Forum On Defending and Managing Automotive Product Liability Litigation to be held November 19-20, 2009 at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago. The Forum is a national conference on the defense of automotive product liability cases, attracting federal judges, in-house counsel and outside attorneys. John has been asked to address the defense of claims involving electronic stability control.