Megan is an associate in Ropes & Gray's litigation and enforcement practice group. Megan’s practice focuses on complex, high-stakes commercial and civil litigation. Her experience includes case management and strategy, dispositive motion drafting, fact and expert discovery, depositions, mediation and settlement. Megan also counsels companies facing government investigations. Megan’s clients include leading health care organizations, private equity firms, and Fortune 500 companies. Megan also maintains a wide-ranging pro bono practice.
While in law school, Megan served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Edmond E. Chang in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Megan was the managing online editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, a member of Moot Court Society, and a senior advisor in Northwestern’s Academic and Professional Excellence program. Megan also represented indigent defendants through Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions.
Prior to law school, Megan honed her persuasive communications skills as the director of marketing and communications for a national rare disease patient advocacy group.
Experience
- Defending a major pharmacy company in cases alleging common-law fraud and violations of several states’ consumer-protection statutes.
- Representing a private equity company and its portfolio company in a suit alleging breach of contract and fraud.
- Representing multiple families in a Section 1983 lawsuit.
- Advising major pharmaceutical and medical device companies in False Claims Act investigations.
- Assisted global medical device company in investigating whistleblower allegations of FCPA violations in Asia and Europe, assessing compliance controls, and liaising with DOJ and SEC.
- Worked with a global medical device manufacturer to conduct internal investigations based on commercial practices across multiple geographies and advised on related compliance and control risks.
- Secured asylum for a woman and her daughters seeking protection from gang violence in El Salvador.