Megan specializes in employment law litigation and counseling.  Her clients have included high-level executives and all manner of employers, including private corporations (from a Fortune 500 company to a sole proprietor), public entities, and non-profits. 

An accomplished litigator, Megan has 15 years of litigation experience before state and federal courts, administrative bodies, and in private arbitrations. She is experienced in all aspects of the litigation process, including pleadings, written discovery and depositions, dispositive motion practice, alternative dispute resolution, and trial preparation. Megan defends employers on the full array of employment law matters, including cases involving alleged violations of Title VII, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California and United States Constitutions, the California Labor Code, and California’s Private Attorneys’ General Act (“PAGA”). 

Megan’s practice also includes providing both high-level and day-to-day advice and counsel to employers on diverse employment and labor law issues including wage-and-hour compliance, recruitment and hiring, employee discipline and termination issues, leaves of absence, employee disability issues and the “interactive process,” and both state and federal anti-discrimination, harassment, and retaliation laws.

Megan also has extensive experience advising on and conducting workplace investigations. She has conducted investigations for public and private employers involving a variety of allegations, including harassment, workplace violence, misuse of funds/embezzlement, conflicts of interest, and off-duty misconduct.

Megan is a member of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the California Lawyers Association.  She is admitted to practice before all state courts in California, as well as the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California.