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Sheila M. Prendergast

Senior Managing Associate
Chicago
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312.624.6358
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Shelia Prendergast

Sheila represents institutional and individual clients in federal and state court litigation at both the trial and appellate level.

Sheila focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation involving contract disputes, business torts, products liability, trade secret misappropriation, securities fraud, health care fraud, government investigations, and other civil, commercial, and class action matters. She has experience in all aspects of litigation, including significant experience drafting dispositive motions, briefs, and other trial materials, conducting expert discovery, and managing complex discovery productions. Sheila also provides a wide range of pro bono legal services.

Previously, Sheila served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable William J. Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to law school, Sheila taught high school English in Washington D.C. as a member of Teach for America.

  • Litigation
  • University of Notre Dame Law School, 2014, J.D.
    • cum laude
    • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of College and University Law
    • Notre Dame Moot Court Trial Team
    • Winner, American Association for Justice Trial Advocacy Competition National Championship, 2013
    • Barrett Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy
  • American University, 2009, M.A., Teaching
  • Georgetown University, 2007, B.A., English and Government; Minor: French
    • cum laude
  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • French
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