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About Margaret Langdon
Margaret Langdon practices from the firm's Independence, Missouri office as a member of complex tort teams. She joined Langdon & Emison from the Cass County Prosecutor's Office, where she served as Director of Child Support Enforcement and was responsible for the county's Treatment Court programs, and first-chaired a felony trial. Before that she interned at the Johnson County District Attorney's Office, managing a caseload of misdemeanor offenses including those set for trial and serving as second chair of a felony trial.
Margaret has been identified in her early career by The National Trial Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys as a leading civil litigator under 40 for plaintiffs. She holds leadership positions in the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors; Executive Committee), the Society of Women Trial Lawyers, and the Association of Women Lawyers. At the University of Kansas School of Law, she received the CALI Award in advanced litigation, was on the mock trial team, and clerked for the Missouri Court of Appeals.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
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A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.
A Jackson County jury held Ford Motor Company liable for a defective fuel tank design after three members of a Missouri family burned to death when their F-150 pickup ruptured and ignited during a 1999 highway collision.
A 1993 federal jury awarded $11.3 million to the sons of Beverly Garner, a passenger killed when a defective fuel pump ignited an engine fire in her 1985 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer, a verdict whose admissibility fight over a former GM insider's testimony traveled all the way to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the plaintiffs' favor.
A Cook County jury awarded locomotive engineer Christopher Cravatta $5.3 million under FELA after he slipped on oil-coated flooring and an icy step-down gap at Chicago's Union Station, suffered a disc tear requiring spinal fusion, and was permanently disqualified from railroad work.
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Aaron Eckerberg after a commercial van driver for Inter-State Studio and Publishing Co. blew a stop sign on a Missouri highway and slammed into his truck, causing a fractured thoracic vertebra and traumatic brain injury that ended his career as a combat helicopter pilot.
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