Meghan Breen focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts. She represents clients from a variety of industries defending against complex products liability theories, including novel theories of public nuisance, aggregated proof, risk contribution, and conspiracy. Meghan's current practice involves coordinating strategies among joint defendants, acting as liaison counsel for industry groups, and working with experts in medical, technical, and historical fields.
She has also represented clients in disputes related to government contracting, breach of contract, shareholder derivative actions, securities litigation, and internal investigations. Meghan has experience leading fact witness and corporate representative depositions, preparing and presenting cases for mock jury exercises, and writing motions, briefs, and petitions at every appellate level.
While in law school, Meghan was one of six students selected for the inaugural semester of the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, a full-time appellate advocacy clinic devoted to public interest litigation. Meghan assisted clinic clients by drafting merits briefs and amicus curiae briefs filed in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2018, Meghan clerked for then-Presiding Justice David E. Nahmias of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Meghan serves as a board member for a local community service organization, Cheers For Good, and is a Barrister in the Judge Clarence Cooper American Inn of Court.
Esperienze
- Georgetown University (J.D. magna cum laude 2017; Order of the Coif; Top 5%; Executive Editor, The Georgetown Law Journal Annual Review of Criminal Procedure); Georgia State University (B.A. in Applied Linguistics magna cum laude 2009)
- Georgia
- Law Clerk to Presiding Justice David E. Nahmias, Supreme Court of Georgia (2018-2019); Extern to Judge Richard J. Leon, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Spring 2016); Intern to Justice David E. Nahmias, Supreme Court of Georgia (Summer 2015)