Position: Shareholder.
Practice Areas: Education, Labor and Employment, and Workers' Compensation.

Margaret A. Hesse primarily practices in the areas of education law, employment law and workers’ compensation law. She has represented school districts in employment matters, including Title VII, the Safe Schools Act, Title IX, and the Equal Pay Act. She has represented employers in labor matters before the United States Department of Labor/Wage and Hour Division and the Illinois Commission of Human Rights. Margaret has also represented employers in workers’ compensation matters before the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and has handled numerous appeals before the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission and the Missouri Court of Appeals. Margaret also has practiced in the fields of medical malpractice, legal malpractice and the health care industry.

Margaret has focused her practice in litigation. She has tried numerous bench and jury trials in the State of Missouri and Illinois. She most recently obtained a unanimous defense verdict for a school district in a matter in which the district had been sued for breach of contract and fraud. She also recently obtained a directed verdict for a private university sued for Title IX violations by a former coach.

• J.D., Washington University School of Law, 1994
• B.A., Fontbonne College, cum laude, 1989

• Missouri, 1994
• Illinois, 1995

• Missouri Bar
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
• Women Lawyers Association of Greater St. Louis

• "Civil Rights and Discrimination, Governmental Liability," Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel Update, July 1995

• The Literacy Council of Greater St. Louis