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About Matthew Leonard
Matthew S. Leonard is an associate attorney at Smith LaCien LLP, focusing on catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. Before joining as an attorney, he served as a law clerk for the firm for three years, assisting with pleadings, motion practice, and trial preparation. Matthew attended DePaul University College of Law, where he was a member of the DePaul Appellate Moot Court Society and competed in the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition, earning a third-place brief award.
He graduated cum laude and was on the Dean's List. He received his undergraduate degree from Lake Forest College cum laude, majoring in Business with minors in Legal Studies and Philosophy, and was a four-year player and captain of the football team. His interest in plaintiff's trial work was shaped by his father and grandfather, both prominent plaintiff's trial attorneys in Phoenix, Arizona.
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.
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