Attorney Megan Shore
Attorney Megan Shore is a nationally recognized Plaintiff’s attorney who litigates cases across the country involving nursing home abuse and neglect, assisted living abuse and neglect, community integrated living arrangement (CILA) abuse and neglect, sexual assault, medical malpractice, birth injury.
Megan is the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10, Super Lawyer’s Illinois Rising Star, The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers. Throughout her career her cases have been highly publicized in the media, including CBS, ABC local news, NBC 5 Chicago Nightly News, AARP, Law360, The Chicago Tribune, and The Daley Herald.
She serves on the executive committee of the American Association for Justice Nursing Home Litigation Group. Megan has also served as a consultant to AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), the Department of Justice, the Attorney General, and Court appointed special monitors as a consultant, which included reviewing and auditing electronic medical records for false and late charting. Megan won the first federal motion to remand within the 7th Circuit determining that nursing homes are not immune from liability pursuant to the PREP Act and federal officer immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Megan has also worked on birth injury cases across the nation in state and federal court for cases resulting in multi-million dollar settlements and jury verdicts including the largest obstetrical malpractice verdict in United States history at the time – $143 million.
She is licensed to practice in both Illinois and Ohio and joined The Henry Law Firm of counsel in 2023.
Awards
Super Lawyer’s 2021-2023 Rising Star The National Trial Lawyer’s 2021 Top 40 Under 40 2022-2023 The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers 2021-2023 National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 2023 The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 100 Lawyers 2022-2023
Associations and Committees:
Ohio Association for Justice Illinois State Bar Association Illinois State Bar Association’s Mentorship Program (Mentor) Illinois Trial Lawyers Association National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Chicago Bar Association Women’s Bar Association of Illinois Co-Chair of the following Committees: Small Firms Annual Dinner Top Women in Leadership Reception The American Association for Justice: The Birth Trauma Litigation Group Women’s Trial Lawyers Caucus The Nursing Home Litigation Group – Executive Committee Member The Medical Malpractice Litigation Group The Medical Record Retrieval CIOX Litigation Group The New Lawyers Division The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyers
Presentations and Publications
American Association for Justice Elder Abuse College: Strategies for Record Breaking Results, 2023, Chicago, IL Exposing Nursing Homes, Trial magazine, June 2022 Be Audit You Can Be: How to Better Prepare Your Lawyer, 2022 LNC Success Conference Increasing the Value of Nursing Home Cases, Maryland Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, January 2022 Understanding Audit Data in Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Cases, Ohio Association for Justice Annual Convention 2022 Understanding the Nursing Home Industry’s Leading Electronic Medical Record and Audit Data, American Association for Justice’s Nursing Home Litigation Group’s Webinar Series, Spring 2022 Understanding Electronic Medical Records and Audit Trails – 2 Part Series, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Conference, West Virginia, 2022 Ethical Trial Practice in the Digital Age, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, December 1, 2021 Nothing Good Happens After 3 Hours: Recent Literature Questions ACOG’s Guidance on the 2nd Stage of Labor, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Journal, July 2021 A New Nursing Home Playbook: Discovery What the Long-Term Care Industry Hides in Its Electronic Medical, Financial, and Staffing Information, The American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, Spring 2021 Seminar Understanding Electronic Medical Records, The American Association for Justice, Spring 2020 Seminar Understanding the Leading Nursing Home EMR System, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Winter 2020 Issue Combating Defense Obstruction in Medical Malpractice Cases, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, December 2019 Seminar
Megan Shore In The News
9th Circ. Ruling Won’t End Nursing Home Virus Venue Fight – Law 360 Super Lawyers’ Rising Star in Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice – Super Lawyers Magazine Top 40 Under 40 Spotlight, Winter 2021 Issue – The Trial Lawyer Magazine Member Spotlight, January 2022 – Illinois Women’s Bar Association Nursing Home Unlikely to Sway 9th Circ. In Virus Venue Fight – Law 360 2 Women Say They Were Sexually Assaulted By Same Masseur At Old Town Massage Envy – CBS News Chicago 2 Women Say Old Town Massage Envy Employee Sexually Assaulted Them – NBC 5 Chicago Nursing Home Unlikely to Sway 9th Circ. In Virus Venue Fight – Law 360 2nd Symphony Of Joliet Wrongful Death Lawsuit, – Yahoo News! Lawsuit Claims ‘Gross Negligence’ in COVID Death at Bloomington Nursing Home – WTLG Radio COVID Executive Order Limits Malpractice Lawsuits – WGLT Radio Lawsuit Accuses Bloomington facility of ‘gross negligence’ in COVID-19 death – Week 25 News Lawsuit Against Bloomington Long Term Care Facility Alleges Gross Negligence in COVID Outbreak Death – ABC News Nursing Homes Struggle to Keep COVID Out as Deaths Rise – WGLT News Bloomington Nursing Home Sued Over COVID Death – The Pantagraph
Teaching and Mentoring Programs
Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2022 Mentor for the UIC Law Alumni Mentor Program, 2022 Mentor for the Illinois State Bar Associations’s Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring, 2022 Mentor for the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, 2022 Trial Advocacy, Guest Speaker, at The John Marshall Law School, 2017
Education
Megan graduated from The John Marshall Law School (JMLS). While in law school, Megan was a JMLS Student Ambassador, a Phi Delta Phi Honor’s Society member, on the Dean’s List, a CALI Award recipient, and awarded as a Dean Johnston Academic Scholar. Out of 124 of her fellow students, Megan placed 2nd for her appellate brief and in oral argument in the Herzog Moot Court Competition. During law school, Megan expanded her legal knowledge by also working for various firms in the Chicagoland area which provided services in immigration law, family law, real estate law, and criminal law. While in law school, Megan worked for the Illinois State’s Attorney’s Appellate Prosecutor where all her cases were successfully affirmed in favor of the appellate prosecutor. During law school, Megan also worked with a firm which prosecuted birth injury cases across the nation in state and federal court for cases resulting in multi-million dollar settlements and jury verdicts.
J.D., The John Marshall Law School B.A., Loyola University Chicago Pre-Medicine, Biology, B.A. Business Management
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