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About Jason Williams
Jason R. Williams is an attorney at Smith LaCien LLP, concentrating in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. He joined the firm in December 2021 after eight years as a solo practitioner at J.R. Williams Law LLC, where he litigated cases at the trial and appellate levels involving complex computer matters, medical malpractice, healthcare, antitrust, commercial work, and trusts and estates. Before private practice, Jason served in the U.S. Army, 82nd Airborne Division from 1993 to 1997, was deployed overseas from Fort Bragg, and received an Army Achievement Medal and a Parachutist Badge.
He then earned a B.A. in International Studies from DePaul University and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was on the Dean's List. He interned at the U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois, and its Antitrust Division, Chicago Field Office, and served as a judicial extern for U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rosemond. Among his results as a solo practitioner, he won summary judgment in federal court against a national title insurance company and obtained settlements for 17 governmental entities under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Smith LaCien LLP
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A Cook County jury awarded $51 million to John Reinke after OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center discharged him without testing his blood sugar, leading to a diabetic cardiac arrest that left him with a permanent brain injury.
A Cook County judge approved an $18.5 million settlement for Gabriela Cedillo, a 24-year-old extra who suffered catastrophic brain damage when a snapped tow cable tore through her windshield during filming of Transformers: Dark of the Moon in Hammond, Indiana.
Chicago agreed to pay $9.5 million to Catalin Dumitrescu, who suffered catastrophic injuries in 2014 when his bicycle wheel lodged in exposed streetcar rails that had been buried in an East Hyde Park street and then re-designated as a bike route without removing the decades-old hazard.
The estate of helicopter pilot Michael Russell recovered $8.15 million, then Illinois's highest reported product-liability settlement involving a helicopter, after a defective tail-rotor drive-shaft bearing caused his Agusta 109C to spin out of control and crash near DuPage Airport. Todd Smith and Brian LaCien, who later founded Smith LaCien LLP, handled the case at their prior firm, Power, Rogers & Smith P.C.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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