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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.

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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.


DBMS congratulates Sherri M. Arrigo, Norman J. Barry, Jr., Donald J. Brown, Jr., Karen K. DeGrand, Richard H. Donohue, Richard B. Foster, John A. Krivicich, J. Kent Mathewson, and Robert W. Smyth, Jr. for being recognized by Illinois Leading Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in Illinois for 2012.

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, John A. Krivicich, J. Kent Mathewson, and Robert W. Smyth, Jr. for being recognized by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in Illinois for 2012. Cortney S. Closey, Timothy L. Hogan and Todd J. Stalmack have been named 2012 Rising Stars by the same publication.

On December 2, 2011, Edward E. Fu and Mark H. Boyle obtained summary judgment on all counts in favor of the firm's client, Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC. Read More.

In its October, 2011 issue, Corporate Counsel magazine, a periodical directed to in-house counsel at U.S. corporations, surveyed the Fortune 100 to identify "Who Represents America's Biggest Companies in U.S. Courtrooms", and named Donohue Brown as one of Ford Motor Company's principal outside law firms for product liability litigation.

On October 21, 2011, a Cook County jury awarded damages in an amount less than the last settlement offer in a case where the firm's client, represented by Norman J. Barry Jr., admitted liability. Read More.

On October 19, 2011, a Cook County jury entered a verdict in favor of the firm's client, an obstetrician/gynecologist represented by Sherri M. Arrigo and Kristin M. Gruss. Read More.