Brian J. Smith and John A. Sivinski joined forces in 2007 at a law firm that focused on criminal defense, labor union representation, personal injury litigation, and complex products liability cases. Mr. Sivinski brought with him his trial experience at power-house law firms including Climaco, Climaco, Lefkowitz and Garofoli and then Kelley & Ferraro . Mr. Smith brought with him experience as an attorney at Masters & Associates, where he developed expertise in representing labor unions and their ERISA plans, people with unemployment appeals, and providing aggressive criminal and OVI defense services.
Having both come from working class families, they made it a priority to provide the highest quality representation possible to the working people of Ohio. They take pride in successfully taking on the largest law firms, the State of Ohio, and anyone else they need to so they can empower the people they serve. In 2009, they transitioned to another firm together as law partners where they continued to focus their legal representation on meeting these goals.
In 2018, Mr. Smith formed The Law Offices of Brian J. Smith, ltd. with John Sivinski as his law partner. They made the decision to limit their practice areas to become masters at OVI and criminal defense, unemployment appeals and union labor law representation. While becoming leaders in their fields, they also made the conscious decision to maintain a small firm atmosphere where every client receives their personal attention.
In 2023, John J. Ready, Jr. joined the firm. He is bright, eager, confident and cognizant of the importance of providing the same personalized attention. He consistently demonstrates his ability to obtain positive outcomes for the people he serves and he understands that at Smith’s Law Offices, the three attorneys work together as a team on each and every case – bringing the best each has to offer to every person served.
Working as a team on every case, they have successfully helped thousands of individuals with criminal and OVI charges, thousands of people with unemployment appeals, and consistently represented labor unions to success through arbitrations and negotiations.
