New Attorney in Our Office
We are pleased to welcome Elizabeth S. Watson who is joining our Civil Department.
Elizabeth S. Watson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in Journalism-Public Relations from Northern Illinois University in 2006. Elizabeth obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri in Kansas City in 2009. While in law school, she studied abroad in both Ireland and France; studying the EU and comparative constitutional law. She clerked for both a private firm representing a municipality and a prosecutor’s office in Missouri. She has successfully prosecuted various criminal offenses, including a misdemeanor jury trial. Over the past three and a half years she has successfully defended personal injury and property damages claims, including negotiating desirable settlements for her clients along with successfully trying several cases to verdict. She has experience in the defense of personal injury, property damage, subrogation, construction negligence, insurance coverage and litigation, and the defense of uninsured and underinsured motorist cases.