About Margaret P. Battersby
Margaret P. Battersby Black built a legal foundation in the Midwest and has kept most of her professional life within Illinois. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan in 2002 and earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2008. Those academic years set the stage for a career that blends courtroom practice, professional association work, and firm leadership.
Her professional record includes a listed management role at Levin & Perconti. That record notes a Managing Partner position dated 2005 at the firm. She is also licensed to practice in Illinois and has maintained active membership in a number of bar and trial organizations since shortly after law school. Her association list spans the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association, both showing membership beginning in 2008, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association from the same year.
Over the last decade and a half she has expanded her involvement beyond local bar groups. She joined the American Association for Justice in 2011. In 2014 she added memberships in the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and the National Association of Elder Law Lawyers. Those affiliations suggest an interest in issues that touch both trial practice and the legal needs of older adults. She also serves on the board of directors of the American Constitutional Society’s Chicago Chapter, where she holds the role of Director of Firm Outreach. That board role places her in regular contact with both private practice colleagues and policy-oriented networks.
Her career path reads as a mix of firm responsibilities and institutional engagement. The combination of a trial lawyers association, a national elder-law group, and a leadership role in a policy organization points to a practice that engages litigation and client advocacy alongside professional outreach. Colleagues in those circles tend to rely on one another for referrals and for coordinated work on complex cases that require both courtroom experience and specialized knowledge of elder law or related civil matters.
She works out of Levin & Perconti in Illinois. Her current practice concentrates on civil litigation, including matters related to elder law, and she continues to participate in professional organizations that intersect with that work.
