Chicago lawyer Todd A. Smith is a founding partner of Smith LaCien LLP, a leading Chicago personal injury law firm whose Chicago medical malpractice lawyers and accident attorneys regularly confront corporations, insurance companies, hospitals, and government agencies on behalf of the everyday people who have suffered catastrophic injuries or wrongful death.
Our Chicago personal injury lawyers have achieved more than $3.5 billion in settlements and verdicts and attained more than 100 settlements and verdicts that exceed $5 million.
Smith LaCien wasrecognized in Jury Verdict Reporter’s annual Settlements Report as one of the Top 5 plaintiff’s injury law firms in 2025 with settlements of $96.5 million. Its largest settlement was for $30.5 million, awarded to the family of a construction worker who died from injuries sustained on the job. Todd Smith was also named a recipient of the JVR/Law Bulletin Media 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
A founding partner of Power Rogers & Smith, P.C., in 1993, he left the firm to start Smith LaCien LLP with Brian LaCien in March 2020.
Todd’s extensive bar leadership includes serving as president of several leading bar associations. He has won numerous awards for his accomplishments, professionalism, and altruism and has been featured in national, local, and legal publications, including the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago magazine, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business and Chicago Lawyer magazine.
For a free consultation, call Smith LaCien at (312) 509-8900 or send an email to: info@smithlacien.com. Smith LaCien LLP is located at 70 W. Madison, Suite 2250, Chicago, IL 60602.
Professional Associations
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now American Association for Justice), Past President
- Illinois State Bar Association, Past President
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Past President
- American College of Trial Lawyers (preeminent members of the Trial bar)
- International Society of Barristers (elected member)
- Inner Circle of Advocates (100 Best Plaintiff’s Lawyers in America)
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers, elected board member
Honors
- JVR/Law Bulletin Media Lifetime Achievement Award, 2025
- Lawdragon Hall of Fame, 2022
- Board member, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 2022
- Named by the Supreme Court of Illinois as chair of the Evidence Committee, 2021.
- Lawdragon Top 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2021
- Listed by Illinois SuperLawyers as the Number 2 top-rated Illinois lawyer in its 2021 edition – covering all practice areas. He has been on the Illinois Super Lawyers list since its inception in 2005 and is regularly ranked in the Top 10.
- The Best Lawyers in America since 1997
- AAJ’s Leonard Ring Champion of Justice Award, 2015
- Illinois State Bar Association’s “Distinguished Award for Excellence,” 2015
- Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year, 2012
- Mass Tort Lawyer of the Year, 2011
- Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Justice, 2009
- Member, Inner Circle of Advocates, 2005
- Member, International Society of Barristers, 1996