Margaret P. Battersby joined Levin & Perconti as an associate in 2008 and has played a key role in a number of nursing home and medical malpractice cases.

Most recently, Margaret worked with Partner Steven Levin to reach a $3.3 million settlement for the family of a 52-year-old woman who suffered a brain injury and died after falling in a hospital. Margaret also settled a nursing home negligence case for $500,000 on behalf of an 89-year-old woman who fell multiple times while living at a Chicago nursing home.

Margaret is handling several nursing home cases, including one against East Peoria Gardens Nursing Home that made headlines after the state shut down the facility. She is also working on complex personal injury and medical malpractice cases including a catastrophic brain injury case filed against a Chicago hospital.

Margaret serves as the Law Firm Outreach Coordinator for the Chicago Chapter of the American Constitution Society and is involved with the Chicago chapter of the organization. During law school, she served as her chapter’s president in 2006 and 2007, on the Chicago chapter board from 2006 to 2008, and as a member of the national organization’s “Next Generation Leaders” program during 2007 and 2008.

Leading up to her tenure at the firm, Margaret graduated from Chicago-Kent Law School with honors, earning the top grade in her litigation technology class. During law school, Margaret was a member of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honors Society. She earned the Best Oralist award in the preliminary rounds of the Midwest Moot Court competition in October 2007, where her team finished second, and was a quarterfinalist in the American Constitution Society’s Moot Court Competition in March 2007. Also, Margaret worked as a legal extern for Ronin Consulting, a litigation technology consulting firm, where she used technology to assist personal injury lawyers throughout the country in organizing and presenting their cases.

Before entering law school, Margaret had a successful career as a financial analyst at JP Morgan Chase in Chicago. In 2003, she assisted the Mergers & Acquisitions group in the acquisition of a real estate asset management firm with $3.5 billion in assets and worked on a presentation to senior management justifying a merger between JP Morgan Chase and Bank One.

Margaret obtained her undergraduate degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with University Honors and a concentration in Finance and Accounting. Margaret grew up in Beverly Hills, MI, a suburb of Detroit, where she attended Wylie E. Groves High School and was actively involved in academics, school leadership and sports, most notably serving as co-captain of her school’s 1998 state championship soccer team.