Meg Gleason has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice in areas including insurance coverage advice and litigation, securities litigation, government inquiries and investigations, and other complex commercial disputes. Meg has experience with all phases of litigation and arbitration, including trial, appeals, briefing and arguing dispositive motions, early case assessment and counseling, fact gathering, and discovery. She has first-chair bench trial experience in federal court and second-chair and other trial experience in U.S. and international arbitrations.

Meg has appeared in state and federal courts, and her litigation experience has focused on practice in the federal courts. She clerked for two years for a federal district court judge. As a member of the Local Rules Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, she has drafted local rules adopted by that court.

Meg is committed to pro bono service. Her pro bono representations have included trial and appellate matters involving prisoner civil rights, equal access to public education for homeless students and students with special needs, and the rule of law. In addition, Meg is involved in a number of civic and charitable organizations. She sits on the board of Sisters Place, Inc., an organization serving families transitioning out of homelessness. She also is a member of the board of managers of the Homewood-Brushton YMCA and the board of governors of the Yale Club of Pittsburgh.

Before law school, Meg lived in the U.K. for three years and earned two degrees from Oxford University, England, while studying there as a Rhodes Scholar.