About Margaret Battersby Black
Margaret P. Battersby Black is a Managing Partner at Levin & Perconti, where she focuses on nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, birth injury, and sexual assault litigation. She joined the firm as a law clerk in 2006, became an associate in 2008, and was named Partner in 2014. In October 2021 she became co-managing partner with Michael Bonamarte. Before law school she worked as a financial analyst at JP Morgan Chase. In 2026, she became the first attorney in Levin & Perconti's history to earn a spot on the Super Lawyers Top 10 list.
Notable case results
A Cook County jury delivered Illinois's largest-ever nursing home verdict, $12.2 million, finding that chronic understaffing at Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center caused Shirley Adams to develop fatal pressure wounds during her stay.
Silver Cross Hospital paid $8 million on the first day of jury selection to resolve a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a 61-year-old woman who died within 26 hours of admission after hospital staff failed to treat a septic kidney infection that records showed was apparent within two hours of her arrival.
Birth injury settlement (brain damage from delayed cesarean section at UIC Medical Center)
Birth injury recovery (HIE and asphyxia injuries with permanent cognitive impairments)
Birth injury settlement (HIE and cerebral palsy)
Nursing home negligence settlement (record-setting $4.1M verdict plus fees for medication mismanagement)
Medical malpractice settlement (wrongful death from sepsis after ER negligence)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
