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Megan Cooney is a partner in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment, Class Actions, and Litigation Practice Groups.
Megan’s practice focuses on high stakes employment and class action litigation. She has represented employers across the country in class actions, collective actions, representative actions under the California Private Attorneys General Act, and sensitive individual actions alleging a broad range of employment-related claims. Megan has extensive experience litigating wage and hour, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and worker misclassification claims.
Megan also has extensive experience advising employers regarding personnel policies, employee handbooks, job classification, termination issues, and other employment-related matters. Megan also represents clients in connection with workplace investigations and compliance audits. She has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including technology, finance, healthcare, retail, industrial services, manufacturing, entertainment, and transportation.
Megan has been recognized for delivering significant results for clients. Lawdragon has recognized Megan in their guide of the 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers since 2022 and, in 2023, included Megan in the inaugural 2023 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation guide which highlights those “who will define where the legal profession of our country goes” and whose “leadership will be called upon by businesses and individuals when they face their crossroads.” She was also recognized by Law360 as one of five Rising Stars in Labor & Employment and by The Best Lawyers in America© as “One to Watch” for 2023 (Labor and Employment).
Megan’s recent representative experience includes:
Megan earned her law degree magna cum laude in 2013 from Pepperdine University where she was a Literary Citation Editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and a member of the Interschool Appellate Advocacy Team. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2010 from California Lutheran University, graduating summa cum laude. Megan is a member of the State Bar of California.
Pepperdine University - 2013 Juris Doctor
California Lutheran University - 2010 Bachelor of Arts
California Bar