About Laura McIlvoy
Laura Jane (Phelps) McIlvoy is a Litigation Attorney at Becker Law Office (a subsidiary of Bubalo Law PLC), based in Lexington, Kentucky. Her practice centers on complex litigation including nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, automobile negligence, products liability, and high-stakes civil cases.
McIlvoy earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky School of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky.
With five years of practice, she previously held positions at Peterson Law Office, Wilhoit Law Office, and Golden Law Office. She successfully argued before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and secured a published decision, Lemaster v. Lawrence County, Kentucky, establishing new protections for plaintiffs in civil rights retaliation claims against government officials.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Becker Law Office
These results are credited to Becker Law Office. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.