Eckert Seamans Welcomes Commercial Litigator Megan Padgett
August 27, 2024
National law firm Eckert Seamans continues its growth with the addition of Megan Padgett as an Associate in its Commercial Litigation practice. Padgett joins the firm’s Pittsburgh office, bringing valuable experience from her previous role at Pion, Nerone, Girman & Smith, P.C.
With a focus on commercial litigation, Padgett’s experience spans transportation law, complex construction litigation, insurance coverage, and appellate matters. She is skilled at identifying areas of exposure and developing and implementing fact-specific investigation and litigation strategies to mitigate risk and exposure throughout the course of litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Padgett was at a Pittsburgh-based boutique transportation law firm. She has appeared in numerous state and federal courts across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, in a broad spectrum of general litigation matters, including contract disputes, products liability, and personal injury matters.
In law school at Penn State Law, Padgett focused her studies on advanced torts and trial advocacy. She also worked in the Penn State Law International Sustainable Development Clinic, working collaboratively with Penn State engineering students and MBA students to implement cutting-edge medical supply access projects and sustainable business innovations in rural areas of Kenya. Admitted to practice in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Padgett earned her J.D. from Penn State Law in 2019, and a B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from West Virginia University. While at West Virginia University, Padgett was a Physics teaching assistant and also worked as a philosophy tutor.
Eckert Seamans’ Commercial Litigation Group provides a full suite of counseling, litigation, and dispute resolution services. With multijurisdictional capabilities and experience to guide our clients skillfully, cost-effectively, and successfully through disputes nationwide, our team also understands the unique aspects of federal and state court systems, including specialized state business courts. Our team has established an excellent reputation for efficiently providing high quality, timely, and efficient services to clients at a competitive cost in a variety of sophisticated and high-stakes commercial litigation matters in areas such as administrative and regulatory litigation, antitrust and competition claims, alternate dispute resolution, breach of contract, business torts, commercial disputes, directors and officers liability, E-Discovery, insurance coverage litigation, partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and utilities and telecommunications disputes, among others. Successfully resolving business disputes requires a solid understanding of our client’s businesses and substantial industry knowledge. Our lawyers have developed particularly in-depth capabilities in the transportation, telecommunications, utilities, hospitality, financial services, energy, manufacturing, gaming, higher education, and healthcare sectors.