Megan is a highly-sought environmental litigator and business counselor with significant experience representing the waste and recycling industry. Her experience leading trial and compliance teams, combined with her business background (she holds an MBA), gives clients a unique perspective on regulatory and adversarial issues. Disciplined, focused, and detail-oriented, Megan employs her organizational skills to manage complex processes and ensure that clients are up to date on developments and matter progress.

Litigation and Enforcement Defense

Megan defends waste and recycling companies in high-stakes environmental disputes, government enforcement actions, permitting challenges, and toxic tort litigation. She has particular experience defending waste and recycling companies in matters involving landfill operations, environmental permits, odor and nuisance allegations, citizen suits, constitutional challenges, and regulatory compliance. She regularly appears before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and hearing boards.

Megan has first-chaired numerous evidentiary trials and led litigation teams in some of Beveridge & Diamond’s largest and most critical cases. Her experience includes securing a favorable ruling striking down more than $200 million in illegal and unconstitutional permit fees in California state court; successfully defending multimillion-dollar environmental enforcement actions; obtaining critical permitting variances from California Air Quality Management Districts and negotiating orders for abatement; securing favorable regulatory settlements; and defending clients against mass tort, nuisance, and class action litigation.

Clients value Megan’s ability to organize complicated factual and technical records, work effectively with scientific and engineering consultants, and present clear, persuasive arguments in trials, arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and agency appeals. Her litigation work spans the waste and recycling, transportation, manufacturing, raw materials processing, and oil and gas industries.

ESG and Supply Chain Due Diligence

As co-chair of the firm’s ESG & Sustainability group, Megan advises companies on corporate governance, supply chain due diligence, voluntary disclosures, responsible sourcing, and human rights and labor issues in corporate operations and supply chains. She helps clients assess their environmental footprints and translate evolving regulatory requirements into practical business strategies

Megan routinely advises on the U.S. SEC conflict minerals rule, the California Climate Disclosure Laws, EU supply chain due diligence requirements, slavery reporting requirements, climate disclosures, and other emerging ESG regulations. As human rights and sustainability become increasingly important to consumers, and, thus, company brands, Megan understands the need for accessible, responsive, and accurate legal counsel and practical advice in these areas.

Additionally, Megan counsels companies on green marketing and other environmental and sustainability claims, helping clients evaluate claims for accuracy, substantiation, and potential litigation and enforcement risk. She also advises clients facing greenwashing and fairwashing claims, including litigation under state consumer protection laws challenging environmental, sustainability, and responsible sourcing representations. Her experience allows her to help companies navigate greenwashing and fairwashing claims, including litigation arising under state consumer protection laws challenging such representations.