MEGAN E. WILLIAMS
Associate Attorney

Megan Williams focuses her practice in the areas of personal injury, commercial law, construction law, and employment law. She also has experience on appellate matters. Megan has the privilege of assisting parties through all steps of litigation, including negotiations, client counseling, pre-trial and trial. She is admitted to practice in Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Megan earned her JD from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Throughout her time in law school, Megan served as a notes and comments editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, where her team competed nationally and won a best brief award. She also earned four different CALI Awards for Excellence in Intensive Trial Advocacy, Mediation, Professional Responsibility, and Business Entity Formation and Transactions. Prior to law school, Megan earned a Bachelor of Criminal Justice and Bachelor of Arts in Government and Sociology from New Mexico State University.

Prior to joining the Law Offices of Kevin E. O’Reilly, Megan worked as a law clerk for a mid-size defense firm focusing on construction law, where she contributed to the 2021 version of USLAW’s State of Illinois Construction Law Compendium. Additionally, Megan worked as an extern at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as well as judicial extern for the Honorable Patricia O’Brien Sheahan of the Circuit Court of Cook County and the Honorable Marci Beyer of the Third Judicial District Court of New Mexico.