Meghan’s practice focuses on strategic counseling for clients on information governance and eDiscovery planning for complex commercial, high-profile litigation matters. Meghan is counsel in the firm’s litigation practice and the head of the Information Governance & eDiscovery Group, which focuses on providing state-of-the-art data management and eDiscovery advice and services to corporate clients across multiple industries. Her experience includes developing and implementing best practice guidelines on enterprise-level information governance and approaching her clients’ eDiscovery challenges with innovative and cost-effective technology solutions that promote efficient handling of complex data management projects.

Meghan is highly skilled in assessing the client’s data capabilities and procedures and benchmarking the results against industry best practices to determine potential legal and operational risks. She advises corporate clients on the development of tailored protocols to streamline discovery preparation and response by controlling the costs associated with electronic information and meeting the desired risk level.

Meghan’s clients frequently seek her counsel and strategic advice and trust her leadership in managing their most challenging and complex discovery response plans, often due to internal investigations or governmental subpoenas. She regularly leads presentations advising clients and lawyers alike on preservation obligations and strategies, defensible data disposition, predictive coding and cross-border discovery issues. Meghan is also a frequent speaker and writer on a number of issues related to electronic discovery, data preservation, privilege waiver, and employee communication privacy concerns. 

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, The College of William & Mary, Articles Editor, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2007

BA, University of Notre Dame, summa cum laude, 2004

• Works with corporate clients to design and implement company-wide legal hold and ediscovery protocols. 
• Routinely designs and supervises collection, review, and production of documents for Fortune 500 companies in response to numerous actions, including defending class action claims, state attorney general investigations, Federal Trade Commission civil investigative demands, and Department of Justice grand jury subpoenas. 
• Served as discovery counsel in large scale internal investigation of financial institution, as well as in responding to related government subpoenas and civil litigation. 
• Represented several financial services institutions in connection with cyber security issues and related crises management.
• Participated in internal investigations regarding cyber theft of credit card and other personal data in network security breach cases.
• Investigated and mediated contractual business dispute for top US defense contractor. 
• Advised Fortune 500 large financial services company on enterprise-wide preservation activities in response to government subpoenas and related civil litigation, including preservation at hundreds of locations across the country. 
• Coordinated electronic discovery, collection, and culling issues and managed large scale review and deposition preparation related to significant Department of Justice Second Request for client in the transportation industry. 
• Advised company on evolving legal theories of “reasonably accessible” electronically stored information for purposes of shifting production costs. 
• Analyzed jurisdictional legal theories on the issue of corporate separateness for a Fortune 500 company with numerous subsidiaries. 

• Member, Women in eDiscovery, Richmond and DC Chapters
• Member, DC Bar Committee on Ediscovery

• Social Networking Sites and the E-Discovery Process, Data Protection Law & Policy
• Privacy Issues: Workplace Searches, Surveillance, and Monitoring, White Collar Crime Report, a BNA publication, Vol. 4 No. 12
• Discovery in the Digital Age, Civil Discovery in Virginia, Virginia Lawyers Practice Handbook
• California Early Discovery Disclosures Demand More of Defendants, Bloomberg Law
• Alternative Privilege Log Techniques in an E-discovery World, Commercial & Business Litigation Newsletter, a publication of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Vol. 10 No. 2
• Litigation Preparedness Through the E-Discovery Process, in Managing E-Discovery and ESI: From Pre-Litigation Through Trial
• Internal Investigation and eDiscovery, in eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel
• When Backup Tapes Become Discoverable – A Costly Lesson in the Importance of Information Governance, Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report
• Examining Deflategate As A Discovery Dispute, Law360