Melissa Gandhi focuses her practice on complex insurance coverage and commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on cyber, business, and professional liability matters, including healthcare liability, employment practices liability, lawyers professional liability, and public and private company directors and officers liability. She represents clients in high-exposure disputes involving errors and omissions, data breaches, technology-related claims, and other sophisticated commercial risks, integrating strategic coverage analysis with active litigation. Drawing on extensive trial experience, Melissa brings a courtroom-informed approach to evaluating liability and damages, allowing her to realistically assess claim value, calibrate risk, and strategically position matters towards resolution.
- Obtained defense verdict in favor of general surgeon accused of failing to diagnose compartment syndrome in a two-week medical malpractice trial in which the jury deliberated for less than an hour before finding in favor of the doctor.
- Obtained defense verdict in favor of neurologist accused of negligently reading an MRI resulting in delayed diagnosis of cancer in a three-week medical malpractice trial.
- Successfully defended Appellate brief in Illinois Appellate Court – Second District on behalf of a large-scale hospital system.
- Courts Crack Down on AI Misuse in the Legal Profession, D&O Diary, September 2025
- Medical Malpractice 101, Physicians at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital, June 2023
Admissions
- Illinois
- New York
Education
- J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2011
- B.S., Political Science and Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2007