You Become the Lawyers You Learn From, with Todd Smith and Brian LaCien

Some lawyers spend their careers avoiding the toughest cases. Todd A. Smith and Brian LaCien built their Chicago firm, Smith LaCien LLP, on taking them. Together, they've secured over 100 verdicts and settlements above a million dollars. On this episode, they walk host Rahul Ravipudi through a $51 million emergency-room verdict — the third-highest med-mal award for an adult in Illinois — that turned on a single missing blood test, and a railroad crossing case they navigated around brutal federal preemption. Along the way, Todd shares how he keeps ironclad control on cross-examination, and Brian explains why juries can always sniff out a lawyer who isn't authentic. They also trace how the mentors who shaped them still surface in how they try cases.

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