Meghan M. Brown
Partner
Meghan Brown focuses her practice on general liability and appellate advocacy, including matters involving personal injury, construction, and professional liability. She routinely represents medical professionals and health care facilities in professional liability claims. With over a decade as a civil litigator in private practice, Meghan also draws on experience earned serving for two years as a law clerk at the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, in Rochester.
Meghan has lectured on premises liability and appellate procedure, co-edited a chapter of the New York State Bar Association’s treatise on preparing for and trying the civil lawsuit, serves on the Judiciary Committee for the Bar Association of Erie County and serves as a co-chair of the Access to Justice Committee for the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York at the state level. Meghan also contributes to multiple Goldberg Segalla publications, including the OSHA Legal Developments and Defense Strategies blog.
Honors & Awards
Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2019-20
Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2013–18
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
Education
- State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2006
- Buffalo Law Review: Executive Editor
- Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal: Articles Editor
- Jessup International Moot Court Board
- Robert J. Connelly Award for Excellence in Trial Technique
- Columbia University, M.A., 2002
- University of Rochester, B.S., B.A., cum laude, 2000
Professional Affiliations
- Legal Ethics Committee, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York: Co-Chair
- Western New York Trial Lawyers Association: Treasurer
- Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York: Board Member
- Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, Western New York Chapter
- Access to Justice Committee: Co-Chair
- Western New York Chapter Legal Ethics Committee: Former Co-Chair
- Erie County Bar Association
Publications & Events
- Co-Author, “Jury Instructions,” Preparing for and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, 2d Ed., 2016 Rev., New York State Bar Association
- Author, “Sharing the Wealth? How About the Risk?” Buffalo Law Journal, October 9, 2014
Recent Insights
October 1, 2019
August 13, 2019