CHICAGO, February 22, 2021 – Chicago trial lawyer Todd A. Smith, a founding partner of Smith LaCien LLP, a personal injury law firm, has been named by Lawdragon to the 2021 Top 500 Leading Lawyers in America, an honor given to lawyers who have achieved the highest level of success Considered among the most respected legal media companies in the world, Lawdragon publishes several magazines each year to recognize excellent lawyers in individual practice areas.
A year-long, journalism-driven investigation into the legal developments that mattered most, and the lawyers and judges behind those achievements, is a core part of their selection process. Smith LaCien has won some of Illinois’s largest multi-million dollar jury awards and settlements in catastrophic personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases.
A founding partner of Power Rogers & Smith, P.C., he left in 2020 to launch Smith LaCien LLP with partner Brian LaCien. Smith has served in a leadership capacity for numerous other national, regional and local lawyer groups. A past president of the largest trial lawyer association in the world — the American Association for Justice (AAJ), Smith serves as chair of its Endowment and is a founding board member of the organization’s Center for Constitutional Litigation.
A past president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Illinois State Bar Association, he is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group of the top 100 trial lawyers in the U.S., and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only organization of the top 500 top trial lawyers in the world. He has received numerous awards for his successful representation of clients.
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