Tressler is pleased to welcome Megan K. McGrath as senior counsel in our Litigation Practice Group in the Chicago office. Megan is an accomplished litigation attorney who has represented not-for-profit agencies as well as municipal governments in the Northern District of Illinois and the Cook County Circuit Court. Most recently, she represented agencies that provide rehabilitation services and elder care, as well as religious orders in civil matters.

Megan honed her litigation skills defending government entities and law enforcement officers while working with private firms and municipal law departments. In doing so, she has taken over ten cases to jury trials in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, representing the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in a variety of civil rights matters, including police shootings, alleged unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, excessive force, and other injury claims.

“I am thrilled to join Tressler,” said Megan K. McGrath. “I look forward to working alongside the firm’s very accomplished litigation team.”

Prior to joining Tressler, Megan was senior counsel at a well-known boutique trial law firm. Before that, she was the senior litigation associate representing government entities and law enforcement officers in federal civil rights litigation for government entities and private firms. Megan developed strong litigation skills as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Civil Actions Bureau for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, and as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago Department of Law. In 2018, Megan successfully argued a case before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Megan is an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she teaches trial practice courses, and serves on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy as an instructor for its Building Trial Skills and Deposition programs. She previously taught legal writing as an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School for several years.

In 2014, while an associate, Megan was honored with the Northern District of Illinois Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service. During law school, she received the Loretta C. Douglas Merit Scholarship and earned CALI Awards in Appellate Advocacy and Professional Responsibility.

Megan received her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago and her B.A. in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Megan can be reached at mmcgrath@tresslerllp.com.

About Tressler LLP

Headquartered in Chicago, with ten offices located in six states, Tressler LLP is a national law firm comprised primarily of attorneys who devote their practice to the representation of the insurance industry in coverage analysis and resolution, litigation, underwriting consultation, product development, claims management, and reinsurance.

In addition, Tressler has one of the most experienced and multi-faceted government law practices in Illinois, and has attorneys who represent clients in commercial litigation, defense litigation, corporate transactions, employment law and litigation, intellectual property, and condominium and common interest community association law.

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