Michael M. Badowski

Michael M. Badowski is a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, partner who defends health care professionals and health care institutions in medical malpractice and professional liability matters. His clients include hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospices, physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, midwives, and technicians. His practice focuses on professional negligence actions, catastrophic injury claims, disciplinary matters before the Board of Medicine, and personal injury mediation or arbitration.

Badowski earned a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law. He received a B.A. from Villanova University and graduated with honors from the US Navy Justice School. His education and military legal training support a practice built on trial preparation, legal analysis, medical evidence review, and disciplined advocacy. That foundation helps him evaluate complex health care claims, expert testimony, and professional liability issues with practical judgment.

Badowski served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps. His duties included work as special military assistant to the US Attorney’s Office in defense of FTCA medical malpractice claims against Naval physicians and hospitals. He later became a founding member of a Harrisburg insurance defense firm that merged with his current firm in 2000. He has tried more than 150 cases to jury verdict.

Michael M. Badowski is admitted in Pennsylvania, the US Supreme Court, the Third Circuit, the United States Court of Military Appeals, and the federal district courts in Pennsylvania. His honors include an AV Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers selection, and National Board of Trial Advocacy certification as a Civil Trial Advocate. Badowski helps health care clients address malpractice claims, disciplinary matters, and high-exposure litigation with preparation and steady advocacy.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Margolis Edelstein
• Former Lieutenant Commander, US Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Member, National Board of Trial Advocacy

Licensed State

• Pennsylvania

Education

• Duquesne University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• US Navy Justice School
• Villanova University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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