John Smalley - Dayton, OH
Attorney at Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz L.P.A.
Personal Injury Lawyers in Dayton, OH
131 North Ludlow St. Dayton, OH 45402
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- 1 Super Lawyers®
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41
Years
Experience
Dayton Personal Injury Lawyer
Updated: 09/15/2026
Areas of Practice
- Personal Injury
- Car Accidents
- Dog Bites
- Construction Accidents
- Trucking Accidents
- Wrongful Death
- Medical Malpractice
- Defective Products
- Class Action
- Insurance Bad Faith
Attorney Information
Overview
Attorney John A. Smalley joined Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz as a partner in 1995. Before that time, he was a partner at another Dayton, Ohio law firm where he focused his practice on insurance defense work.
Over the past twenty five years, John has had a tremendous amount of jury trial experience. He has tried over 400 jury trials in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Texas and South Dakota. He has tried cases involving personal injuries, catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, construction accidents, property damage-fire loss, insurance bad faith, multiple types of business litigation and federal trademark infringement. John obtained many million and multi-million dollar verdicts including million dollar verdicts in an insurance bad faith case reported in National Law Journal, an elevator drop, personal injury case, multiple catastrophic injury cases arising from motor vehicle accidents and multiple class actions.
John has been recognized many times in the recent past. He was nominated by Public Justice in 2007 as National Lawyer of the Year for a $53,000,000 verdict against the State of Ohio in a class action suit on behalf of Ohio Workers. He is honored to be an A-rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been listed as an Ohio Super Lawyer and Top Ohio Attorney from 2007 through 2011. Attorney Smalley has served on the Ohio Association of Justice Board of Trustees, has been recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in Ohio by the National Trial Lawyers Association, serves frequently as a hired expert witness in the area of insurance bad faith and has spoken to dozens of groups and organizations on topics of tort law, insurance bad faith, trial practice and evidence.
Awards and Honors
Awards
Honors
- Ohio Super Lawyers, 2007 - 2011
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers - Ohio, 2007 - 2011
- Super Lawyers, 2007 - 2014
Other Sources of Feedback About John Smalley
Included on the 2025 Ohio Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2024 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2023 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Ohio Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Ohio Super Lawyers list
Education
Legal Education
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University of Dayton School of Law,
Dayton,
Ohio, 1985
J.D.
Non Legal Education
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University of Kentucky, 1981
B.A.
Current Employment Position(s)
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Partner
Pro Bono Activities
- Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project
Bar Admissions
- Ohio, 1985
- Kentucky, 1986
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 1986
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Dayton Bar Association
- Louisville Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Ohio Association for Justice
- The National Trial Lawyers Association
- Kentucky Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
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