Meghan Patrice Murray

Meghan P. Murray is an associate in the firm’s Chicago office, where she focuses on representing Illinois employers in workers’ compensation matters.

Meghan is adept at handling the demands and intricacies of workers’ compensation defense at every stage. Her practice includes conducting direct and cross-examination deposition of expert physicians; trial preparation, including case investigation, development of trial strategy, witness preparation, and motion practice; and conducting trials, through preparation and delivery of opening statements, witness testimony, and controlling the course of a trial. Meghan also handles trial and appellate briefs.

Meghan’s experience defending employers and insurers extends to personal injury and a variety of civil litigation matters, including employer liability, construction and other workplace accidents, insurance law, third-party defense, and subrogation claims.

In addition to her trial work, Meghan advises worldwide claims management corporations on legal strategy. She also routinely negotiates and drafts settlement contracts.

Meghan graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a staff member of the Health Law Journal and an oralist on the school’s National Moot Court Team, as well as an oralist and brief writer on the Chicago Bar Review Moot Court Team. Meghan was the university’s 37th Annual Intra School Moot Court Champion, winning Best Oral Argument and beating out 200 participants before three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign James Scholar Honors Program with a dual Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish.