Megan Wagner is an honors graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. While at Boalt Hall, she served as associate editor of the California Law Review. As a research assistant to Professor Melvin Eisenberg, a leading expert on Corporations Law, Ms. Wagner received an in depth exposure to the law governing business relations. Upon graduation in 1987, she was invited to join the honorary Order of the Coif legal fraternity.

Education

Prior to attending Boalt Hall, Ms. Wagner received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating cum laude with College Honors and High Departmental Honors.

Ms. Wagner has pursued challenging intellectual legal problems throughout her career, focusing her practice on complex business litigation and appellate matters. She received training in the law of business transactions and litigation at one of the largest law firms in the country, Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. She continued her professional growth as a trial lawyer at two well known regional firms, McKittrick, Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh and Kindel & Anderson. As the senior associate in the Orange County office of Kindel & Anderson, Ms. Wagner handled all of the office's appellate matters and was associate-in-charge of numerous large litigation cases. In this role, Ms. Wagner tried several matters and was second chair in three multi-week, multi-million dollar trials regarding issues of real property, land use and environmental regulation, and business disputes. Through Wagner Lautsch, Ms. Wagner has continued her high level appellate and litigation practice, and has added to her services transactional buisiness matters and estate planning.

In addition to her professional responsibilities, Ms. Wagner is active in the community. An accomplished author and researcher, she has published scholarly articles in the Los Angeles Lawyer on successor liability in environmental litigation and on the enforcement of contractual attorneys' fees clauses and in the California Law Review on jurisdiction in the International Court of Justice. She currently serves pro bono as counsel for the charity organization Rebuilding Together, Orange County. For several years, Ms. Wagner has mentored junior lawyers as a "Barrister" with the Legion Lex American Inns of Court, whose mission is to foster education and professionalism among the bench and bar. Often rising to leadership roles, she has been a section chairperson for the Inns of Court, served as Secretary of the Orange County Bar Association's Appellate Law Section, and been the assistant chair of a successful United Way fund raiser targeting the legal community.