Meg Griffith represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation across the country. Meg joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for Judge Mark Wolf of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and Justice Kimberly Budd of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Between clerkships, Meg practiced commercial litigation and regulatory work at another leading firm in New York and London.
TRIAL WINS
Meg and a team of lawyers from Susman Godfrey won a $166.3 million jury verdict on behalf of Finesse Wireless LLC against AT&T Mobility LLC and Nokia Corporation of America over patent infringement claims relating to wireless networks. The jury delivered the verdict after three hours of deliberation following a week-long trial in the Eastern District of Texas. Meg was a key member of the trial team, leading critical depositions, putting up Finesse’s infringement expert at trial, and playing a significant role in the Markman hearing win. This case was reported on by media outlets including Reuters, Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Telecom Paper, Law360, and Texas Lawbook. Read more.
In Cruickshank v. Ogbonna et al., Meg defended two individuals and their businesses in a partnership dispute where claims were valued at $70 million. Meg was a key player on her team leading up to and during trial. She led discovery efforts, secured a temporary injunction on counterclaims, successfully argued several critical motions, and won denial of the key aspects of Counter-Defendants’ motion for summary judgment. During the two-week trial, Meg examined friendly and adverse witnesses and successfully defended direct verdict motions on major counterclaims. The jury later rejected plaintiff’s expert’s model and awarded only 8% of her claim, a huge win for the defense.
Meg and a team of Susman Godfrey lawyers were hired less than six months before a preferentially set jury trial in Texas state court to represent a plaintiff in a nearly decade-long theft of trade secrets dispute between two manufacturing competitors. The team converted the case to binding arbitration, tried it, and secured a non-appealable award, which, after the payment of the firm’s contingent fee, netted the client $30,901,482.
Meg has also represented clients pro bono in unemployment, housing, child support, and immigration-related matters.
BACKGROUND
During law school, Meg pursued a dual-degree program, earning both a J.D. from Columbia and a Master in Economic Law from Sciences Po. She served as Head Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of European Law and represented non-profit organizations through Columbia Law School’s Community Enterprise Clinic.
Meg was born in Houston and grew up in Texas, Louisiana, and Germany. She received her undergraduate degrees with honors from Boston University. Between college and law school, Meg taught high school mathematics in Donna, Texas through Teach For America.