Healthcare
Direct Lines
+1 312 635 6973 +1 312 907 6464 siobhan.murphy@clydeco.usMain Office
Chicago
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Full Profile
Siobhán Murphy has a diverse background representing individuals and corporations in complex and general civil litigation, including appeals.
She has handled matters involving many issues, including:
- Medical and nurse malpractice
- In-home healthcare and elder abuse
- Insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, including general liability, construction defects, professional liability, life and disability insurance, environmental and mass tort, excess and umbrella coverage, ocean and inland marine insurance
- Maritime law
- Wrongful death and serious personal injury
- Product liability and premises liability
- Environmental law
- Business disputes and commercial law
- Ocean and inland marine cargo claims, as well as litigation regarding riparian rights along navigable waters
Siobhán was outside trial counsel and outside general counsel to a national family of companies in the in-home elder care market for over a decade. She has successfully represented nursing homes, ambulance companies, and other companies in the allied health care fields, both directly and as counsel selected by insurance companies. She has handled cases alleging wrongful death and serious personal injury, medical and nurse malpractice, elder neglect and abuse, and negligent hiring and supervision of health care workers. She has also successfully handled administrative contract actions relating to eldercare and review of contract actions in the court system.
In addition, she has represented not for profit entities, including defending both condominium boards and co-ops.
Admissions
- Illinois
- Indiana
- US District Court for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois
- US District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
- US District court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits
Education
- LL.M., with high honors, University of Cambridge, England, 1992
- J.D., with high honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law – Illinois Institute of Technology, 1991
- Gradate, Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel
- B.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Indianapolis Bar Association