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 October 17, 2008, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a $27 million verdict and granted a new trial to a product manufacturer represented by Mark H. Boyle and Karen Kies DeGrand. Read more.

On October 2, 2008, a Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of three defendant emergency room physicians represented by Donald J. Brown, Jr. Read more.

John J. Duffy was an invited speaker at CNA's ALADN seminar in Atlanta, GA. Read more.

On September 23, 2008 a Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of defendant ophthalmologists represented by Richard B. Foster and Timothy L. Hogan. Read more.

Kent Mathewson and Tanya Poth achieved a defense victory before a Cook County jury on September 18, 2008. Read more.

J. Kent Mathewson Receives Outstanding Attorney of the Year Award. Read more.

On July 2, 2008, a Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of an otolaryngologist represented by Robert W. Smyth, Jr. and Kristin M. Gruss. Read more.

The Chicago Bar Association recently appointed John J. Duffy as the 2008 - 2009 Chairman of the Association's Attorney Malpractice Committee. Read more.