Meghan M. Stuer

Meghan M. Stuer is a senior litigation associate in the Business Trial Practice Group at Sheppard Mullin’s New York office. As a member of the firm’s Trade Secrets and Healthcare teams, Meghan represents clients in their most critical and complex commercial, healthcare, and intellectual property disputes.

Trade Secret & Intellectual Property Litigation

Meghan prosecutes and defends claims under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and similar state trade secret laws. She has prevailed in high-profile cases involving preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, including matters requiring the recovery and analysis of forensic evidence and investigation of employee data theft. Meghan has secured dismissals with prejudice and defeated summary judgment motions in multi-district employee mobility litigation, and has obtained significant monetary settlements and permanent injunctions for clients after exhaustive investigations and successful evidentiary hearings across federal courts and in Delaware Chancery Court. She consistently leads all phases of discovery, manages depositions, coordinates expert testimony, negotiates strategic settlements, including those involving injunctive relief, and provides guidance on safeguarding confidential information, conducting internal investigations, and developing protocols for protecting sensitive technology and business assets.

Healthcare Litigation

Meghan represents hospitals, health systems, physician groups, and life sciences companies in a wide range of commercial litigation, enforcement actions, regulatory investigations, and government investigations. She is experienced in handling high-stakes disputes involving breach of contract, business torts, partnership and shareholder issues, restrictive covenants, and regulatory enforcement actions. Meghan has substantial experience advising and defending healthcare organizations in cybersecurity class actions resulting from data breaches and privacy incidents, guiding clients through litigation, regulatory inquiries, and complex notification and compliance obligations. Her practice extends to matters that require the successful resolution of multi-jurisdictional disputes, securing complete dismissals, favorable settlements, permanent injunctions, and arbitration awards, such as a $40 million arbitral award for a leading global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry group in a complex cross-border matter.

Leadership & Pro Bono

Meghan maintains an active pro bono practice, regularly representing asylum seekers and successfully securing lawful permanent resident status for clients. She was recognized as part of the team awarded the 2024 “Pro Bono Project of the Year” by Human Rights First and received the 2024 BTI Client Service All-Star Team award. Meghan is also an active member of the firm’s Women Lawyers Group.

Articles

Corporate and Securities Law Blog Posts

• "SEC Shifts Focus on Employees’ Off-Channel Business Communications to Investment Advisers," November 11, 2022

Intellectual Property Law Blog

• “TTAB Precedential Decision: Time Limit for Adding Claims Is Tolled by Filing of Cancellation Within Registration’s Fifth Anniversary,” July 7, 2016

Labor & Employment Law Blog

• “Seventh Circuit Holds Class Action Waivers are Unlawful and Unenforceable Creating a Circuit Split,” June 8, 2016

New York Commercial Division Round Up Blog Posts

• "New York Courts Continue to Enforce Broad General Releases, Even When Claims are Unforeseeable at the Time of Contract Execution," July 29, 2021
• "Commercial Division Rule Revisions Continue to Promote Efficiency in Complex Cases," August 1, 2018 

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