Hi there, I’m Megan.
Of Counsel
Megan Shore is an award-winning Plaintiff’s attorney who litigates cases involving nursing home abuse and neglect, assisted living abuse and neglect, community integrated living arrangement (CILA) abuse and neglect, sexual assault, and medical malpractice including birth injuries. Throughout her career, Megan has a 100% success rate at obtaining compensation for her clients.
Megan is an Illinois Super Lawyers 2021 and 2022 Rising Star, The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyers 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, and Law360. Megan currently serves as a member of the American Association for Justice’s Nursing Home Litigation Group’s Executive Committee alongside Bedsore.Law Founding Partner, Ernest Tosh.
Megan has litigated hundreds of nursing home abuse and neglect cases throughout her career, including pressure ulcers, falls, dehydration, malnutrition, gangrene, sepsis, sexual assault, drug overdose, medication error, drowning, and suicide to name a few. In 2021, 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 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Megan also provides electronic medical record and audit data consulting services, which includes conducting electronic medical record inspections for nursing home abuse lawyers across the country. Megan has also published articles across the country on exposing nursing home abuse through falsified documentation in electronic medical records. Due to her experience and knowledge, Megan trained Court appointed special monitors selected by the state’s Attorney General on how to find, review, and audit electronic medical records at facilities subject to sanctions and numerous regulatory violations.
Awards
- Super Lawyer’s 2021 Rising Star
- Super Lawyer’s 2022 Rising Star
- The National Trial Lawyers 2021 Top 40 Under 40
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers
Publications
- Point and Click, Exposing Nursing Homes, Trial Magazine, June 2022
- 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
- Understanding the Leading Nursing Home EMR System, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Winter 2020 Issue
Teaching and Mentoring Programs
- Chicago Kent College of Law, Guest Speaker, September 2022
- Mentor for the UIC Law Alumni Mentor Program, 2022
- Mentor for the Illinois State Bar Associations’ 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
Associations and Committees
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association’s Mentorship Program (Mentor)
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
- The American Association for Justice and its subcommittees and caucuses:
- The Nursing Home Litigation Group – Executive Committee At-Large Member
- The Birth Trauma Litigation Group – Member
- Women’s Trial Lawyers Caucus - Member and 2022 Sponsor
- The Medical Malpractice Litigation Group - Member
- The Medical Record Retrieval CIOX Litigation Group – Member
- The New Lawyers Division – Member
- The National Trial Lawyers
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers
- Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers
- Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyers
- Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism – Mentor
Education
- Loyola University Chicago Pre-Medicine, Biology B.A with a minor emphasis in Business Management
- The John Marshall Law School, Chicago
Presentations
- Be Audit You Can Be, 2022 LNC Success Conference
- Increasing the Value of Nursing Home Cases, Maryland Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group
- Understanding Audit Data in Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Cases, Ohio Association for Justice Annual Convention 2022
- Understanding Electronic Medical Records and Audit Trails, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Conference, West Virginia, 2022
- Understanding the Nursing Home Industry’s Leading Electronic Medical Record and Audit Data, The American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, Spring 2022
- Ethical Trial Practice in the Digital Age, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, December 1, 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
- Combating Defense Obstruction in Medical Malpractice Cases, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, December 2019 Seminar
- Guest Speaker at The John Marshall Law School, Trial Advocacy class, 2017
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 5Chicago
- 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
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