Education

A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College
J.D., Order of the Coif, University of California at Berkeley

Biography

Megan McDermott has been teaching doctrinal courses at University of Wisconsin School of Law since 2013. Past and current classes include Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibilities, Torts, and Bankruptcy. 

Megan’s legal experience includes private practice at Covington & Burling, service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and administrative practice with the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. Megan has also served as a Law Clerk to Wisconsin’s former Chief Justice, Shirley Abrahamson, Staff Attorney for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and a Hearing Examiner for Milwaukee County.

Prior to attending law school, Megan worked as a consultant to investment banks and an aide to Massachusetts Governor William Weld.

Megan writes and publishes in the fields of professional ethics, litigation practice and process, and bankruptcy, and her work has appeared in the Northwestern Law Review, the Utah Law Review, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, the University of South Carolina Law Review, the California Law Review Online, and the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal.

Megan was the 2016 recipient of the Warren Burger Prize from the American Inns of Court, a writing competition designed to promote scholarship in the areas of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence. Megan also received the 2015 Gordon S. Sinykin Award of Excellence from the Wisconsin State Bar, for her public education work with the Our Courts Wisconsin program.