Megan Coker

Megan has a broad base of trial and appellate experience that allows her to see the whole picture and present incisive, winning arguments on appeal. She enjoys partnering with clients from dispositive motions, through trial, to successful briefing and argument before a variety of state and federal appellate courts. Megan also excels at emergency appellate practice and has won emergency relief, defended suspended judgments against enforcement, and prevented nullification of trial wins through emergency practice. She has served a wide variety of clients with excellent writing, acuity, and discretion, leading to appellate victories in a broad range of subject matters and procedural postures. Megan’s practice includes complex questions of constitutional law and statutory interpretation, commercial disputes, personal injury, litigation involving municipalities and utilities, and bet-the company litigation and appeals for large corporations. Megan also brings a unique perspective to her practice from her past work as a versatile in-house advisor and litigator for a large technology and staffing company. And Megan relishes assisting individuals, public interest, and media clients with defamation, media, and First Amendment matters, including in federal courts across the country and in pro bono amici matters before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Prior to joining Tillotson Johnson & Patton, Megan practiced appellate and complex commercial litigation at Vinson & Elkins LLP, after which she served as Associate General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for Workrise Technologies Inc.  Before that, Megan clerked for Judge Catharina Haynes on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Judge Norman K. Moon on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.  Megan graduated with honors from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and received the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize and the EppaHunton IV Memorial Book Award.