About Margaret Stansell
Margaret Stansell is a trial lawyer in Langdon & Emison's complex torts division, representing individuals and families seriously injured by defective products and commercial vehicles. Her practice focuses on product liability, trucking and commercial motor vehicle crashes, and other catastrophic personal injury matters. Before joining Langdon & Emison, she gained courtroom experience in private civil litigation and at the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office, as well as through an internship with a Missouri state judge.
She has handled all phases of civil litigation including factual investigation, written discovery, depositions, and motion practice, and briefed and argued a case before the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. Margaret attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law on a full-tuition scholarship and earned multiple young trial lawyer awards. She is the author of 'The Need for The Equal Rights Amendment,' 89 UMKC L. Rev. 779 (2021), and is active in the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, the Attorneys Information Exchange Group, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Langdon & Emison
These results are credited to Langdon & Emison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
