Carla A. Colaianni, a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney at Smith LaCien LLP – Trial Lawyers, has been named a 2025 Illinois Super Lawyer. The selection is based on an evaluation of 12 indicators, including peer recognition and professional achievements. Only the top 5 percent of Illinois lawyers are named to the Super Lawyers list each year. The state has nearly 97,000 licensed attorneys.
A co-chair of the firm’s medical negligence practice, Colaianni represents clients in complex medical negligence and birth injury cases in both the trial and appellate courts.
After receiving her law degree from DePaul University College of Law, Cum Laude, in 2007, she practiced personal injury law in Chicago before returning to her home state of New York. While there, she worked at a leading plaintiff’s law firm where she handled complex birth injury cases and most of the firm’s child sexual abuse cases. She returned to Chicago in 2021 and joined Smith LaCien soon after.
Smith LaCien LLP concentrates in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, trucking litigation, birth injuries, and mass torts. The firm has a long track record of achieving exceptional results for clients, with more than $3 billion in verdicts and settlements, and over 150 cases with results that exceed $1 million.
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