Meghan M. Brown
Partner
Experience
Meghan Brown focuses her practice on civil litigation and trial as well as appellate advocacy, including matters involving personal injury, construction, and professional liability. She serves in a leadership role as a vice chair of the Civil Litigation and Trial practice group, and co-chair of the Appellate group. Meghan represents medical professionals and health care facilities in professional liability claims, and regularly defends therapists, nurses, lawyers and other professionals in matters involving their licensing boards. Delivering thought leadership to both her clients and the legal profession, Meghan lectures on premises liability and appellate procedure, and co-edited a chapter of the New York State Bar Association’s treatise on preparing for and trying the civil lawsuit.
With more than 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. She has served on the Judiciary Committee for the Bar Association of Erie County and as co-chair of the Access to Justice Committee for the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York at the state level.
Honors & Awards
Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2019-24; Top 50 List, 2023-24
Top 25: Women Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2023-24
Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2013–18
Background
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
- Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, Western New York Chapter
- Access to Justice Committee: Co-Chair, 2018-19
- Legal Ethics Committee: Co-Chair, 2016-18
- Erie County Bar Association
- Western New York Trial Lawyers Association
- Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York
- Board of Directors, 2015-18
News & Knowledge
Publications & Events
- “Jury Instructions,” Preparing for and Trying the Civil Lawsuit 2d Ed. 2016 Rev., (Co-Author), New York State Bar Association
- Sharing the Wealth? How About the Risk?” Buffalo Law Journal, October 9, 2014
- “Construction Matters in the New York Court of Appeals: A Year in Review,” GS Webinar Series, August 13, 2024
RECENT INSIGHTS
August 22, 2024
August 31, 2023