Smith, Rickert & Smith is committed to providing its clients with result-oriented, cost-effective legal representation of the highest quality. Originally founded by Harry J. Smith, Jr., a seasoned trial lawyer with over thirty-five years of experience, the firm has in recent years added experienced attorneys with diverse backgrounds and capabilities to handle a variety of legal matters. We are a client-oriented firm, with bright, aggressive attorneys, and a highly competent and technically proficient support staff, dedicated to providing you with the type of service you expect and deserve.

At Smith, Rickert & Smith, our philosophy is simple - we strive to get the results you want, the way you want them. We accomplish this by learning your needs and goals at the earliest possible point in our representation. Based on this information, we devise a well planned and highly focused strategy to satisfy your needs and accomplish your goals, while keeping you involved in the legal process from start to finish. We believe that the only way to truly satisfy our clients is by allowing them to participate to whatever extent makes them feel comfortable. This philosophy applies equally to any project we undertake - be it a highly complex, hotly contested lawsuit, providing advice and counsel on a legal matter, or handling an important personal or business transaction.

Of course, the other, and often most significant part of the relationship between attorney and client, is the issue of cost. We take pride in our ability to effectively manage legal costs, by establishing and adhering to an established legal budget. Our suburban locations are centrally located and keep our overhead costs down, which allows us to offer our services at most competitive rates. Additionally, unlike many firms that use copiers, fax machines, express delivery services, and the like as independent “profit centers,” our policy is to only bill actual costs for these services. As a result of our billing policies and rates, our clients are better able to control legal costs without sacrificing quality. Simply put, we are committed to providing the type of high quality service and responsiveness once thought only to be available from a large firm, at a cost that no large law firm could ever match.

Smith, Rickert & Smith is here to serve you in a variety of areas, including business litigation and transactions, administrative law, health care law, pharmacy, pharmaceutical and medical device law, construction law, labor and employment, estate planning, municipal law, residential and commercial real estate, land use and zoning law, professional liability, product liability, and insurance law. In addition to our Illinois clients and matters, the firm and its attorneys have represented clients from and in matters across the country, including Arizona , California , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Ohio , New York , West Virginia , Wisconsin , and Wyoming.