Andrew W. Mason

Andrew W. Mason is a founding associate and Chicago personal injury attorney with Smith LaCien LLP. The firm has obtained more than $3 billion in settlements and verdicts, including more than 100 settlements and verdicts exceeding $1 million.

Andrew represents individuals and families in complex civil litigation involving catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, and significant financial losses. His work includes cases involving wrongful death, brain injuries, amputations, paralysis, severe burns, and other life-altering disabilities.

Andrew became committed to representing injured individuals after one of his siblings was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident. That experience shaped his understanding of the physical, emotional, and financial challenges that injuries can create for individuals and their families. He works to remain accessible and responsive while helping clients pursue compensation and accountability throughout their cases.

Before helping establish Smith LaCien LLP with Todd A. Smith and Brian LaCien, Andrew assisted with complex corporate bankruptcy matters at a large Chicago law firm. He also worked as an attorney and law clerk for Todd and Brian at their former firm, Power, Rogers & Smith, LLP. Earlier in his career, Andrew worked in the banking and financial services industry for an international investment bank and a Chicago-based investment fund.

Andrew’s notable matters include a $9.2 million medical malpractice and product liability settlement; a $30.5 million construction wrongful death and punitive damages settlement; the Sterigenics Ethylene Oxide Litigation Settlement; a $9.5 million settlement for a plaintiff who suffered a brain injury after a bicycle wheel became lodged in an exposed streetcar rail; an $11.5 million grain elevator explosion settlement; a $7.375 million medical malpractice settlement; a $2.8 million trucking accident settlement involving shipper and broker liability; and a $1.965 million trucking wrongful death settlement involving a driver who suffered severe burns and later died from his injuries.

Andrew has also handled matters involving trucking accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, aviation crashes, grain elevator explosions, industrial accidents, toxic industrial emissions, and product liability claims.

During law school, Andrew served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Eugene Wedoff at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also worked as a summer associate at a commercial litigation firm in Chicago. Since 2017, Andrew has served as an adjunct law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.