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.

Sherri Arrigo and Cortney Closey authored a chapter entitled "Duty to the Courts - Sanctions", recently published in the 2010 Supplement to the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) 2007 Practice Handbook.

Congratulations to Mark H. Boyle for receiving the Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service from the United States District Court, in conjunction with the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Mark was nominated by Magistrate Susan E. Cox and will receive his award at the Eleventh Annual Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Service ceremony on May 26, 2010.

On April 16, 2010 a Cook County jury returned a defense verdict in favor of the firm's client, a pain management specialist, represented by Sherri M. Arrigo and Timothy L. Hogan. Read more.

On March 17, 2010, the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois, in a twenty-page written opinion applying Illinois law, granted summary judgment in favor of the firm’s client, a major motor vehicle manufacturer, represented by John A. Krivicich and Michael J. Borree. Read more.

Mark Burden and Kent Mathewson were invited speakers at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 10, 2010.

On February 1, 2010 a Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of the firm’s client, a gastroenterologist, represented by Anthony M. Pinto and Edward E. Fu. Read more.

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.

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