Madeline O'Mara

Madeline O’Mara focuses her practice on defending personal injury, property damage, and healthcare services matters in civil litigation. Madeline is committed to providing salient solutions that best suit clients’ goals and interests.

A substantial part of her practice encompasses issues involving long-term care across skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, retirement communities, and home health agencies. Moreover, Madeline routinely defends long-term care facilities in administrative matters against the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Before joining Hinshaw, Madeline was a law clerk with the firm. In addition to her academic accomplishments—including earning a Health Law Certificate—during law school, Madeline served as a student attorney with the Loyola Health Justice Project and worked with Chicago’s underserved communities on a number of pro bono matters. She was also a Senior Articles Editor for the Loyola University School of Law Journal and assisted in teaching legal writing to first-year law students.

• Chicago Bar Association

• Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  
  • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Legal Writing
  • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Access to Health Care
  • CALI Award for Highest Grade, Advocacy
  • Merit Scholar
  • Dean’s List

• "COVID-19 and the Hypothetical Vaccine: Who Gets It, Who Decides, and Who Pays?," Loyola University Chicago Journal of Regulatory Compliance, 2020