Company Management

Meghan M. Hart

** ********** **. 781-***-****

Hingham, MA 02043 ***********@*******.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplished litigation attorney with over ten years of federal and state

court experience focused in the areas of commercial contracts, securities

defense, SEC investigations, employment litigation, products liability

litigation and complex business litigation. Extensive experience in

complex and intricate cases and investigations for pharmaceutical, medical

device, financial services and software companies, involving, among other

things, breach of warranty and negligence cases involving various products,

commercial contract disputes, FTC regulations, FDA regulations, failed

mergers, false advertising claims and violations of FINRA and SEC

regulations. Demonstrated courtroom, negotiation, communication and client

interaction skills. Self-motivated and dependable professional able to

handle significant responsibility and a heavy caseload independently and

manage difficult legal issues quickly and efficiently. Management and

supervision of large teams of associates, paralegals and staff to provide

superior quality work product. Significant counseling experience to

clients regarding litigation and business risks regarding business

transactions, product labels, regulatory disclosures and employment-related

matters.

Legal Employment

Cooley LLP, Boston, MA

Litigation Associate (2007 to the present)

Experience: Independently supervise and control cases concerning

commercial contract disputes, business litigation, product liability

cases, including conducting witness interviews, dispositive motion

practice, overseeing discovery and depositions. Manage SEC

investigations regarding insider trading, unregistered broker-dealers

and public disclosures. Provide crucial litigation risk management

and regulatory advice regarding SEC, FTC, FDA and FINRA regulations.

Handle complex securities fraud matters, contract disputes, merger

disputes, creditor disputes, consumer products class actions, products

liability suits, employment litigation and shareholder derivative

cases, including drafting and arguing dispositive motions and taking

depositions.

Examples of Case Experience:

. Successfully represented former directors and officers in a suit

involving a failed merger, including taking depositions and

arguing motions.

. Successfully represented former officers and directors in a

complex commercial case brought by bankruptcy trustee, including

drafting and arguing a successful motion to dismiss.

. Obtained dismissal of former corporate officer from consumer

fraud class action.

. Obtained dismissal of a products liability action involving

solder, which exposed manufacturer to significant liability.

. Obtained favorable results in the representation of a broker-

dealer in FINRA regulatory investigation and resulting

litigation, including limiting the exposure of the company

president.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA

Litigation Associate (2006 to 2007)

Experience: Primarily responsible for product liability litigation

concerning nuclear power plants. Handled all aspects of internal

investigations into options backdating and other regulatory

investigations. Second chaired company in bench trial regarding

successor liability and fraudulent transfer claims. Drafted successful

motions to dismiss, oppositions to motions to dismiss, motions for

summary judgment in complex securities fraud matters, contract

disputes, merger disputes, creditor disputes and shareholder

derivative cases. Took and defended depositions in the same matters.

Successfully argued and defended motions to dismiss and discovery

motions in complex commercial disputes.

Examples of Case Experience:

. Conducted internal investigation for corporation concerning its

stock options grants, including conducting witness interviews

and writing report, which avoided SEC investigation.

. Obtained dismissal with prejudice of all securities fraud and

other claims against corporate officers and directors in

multimillion-dollar securities action alleging

misrepresentations in connection with the purchase of a

privately held U.S. company.

. Represented corporation against former officers and directors

and primary shareholders in a complex fraud case involving a

potential AIDS vaccine.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY

Litigation Associate (2005 to 2006)

Litigation Experience: Drafted motions to dismiss, oppositions to

motions to dismiss and pre-arbitration briefs in Delaware Chancery

Court actions, copyright actions and NASD arbitration proceedings.

Managed preparation of expert testimony and lay witnesses for

copyright arbitration proceedings.

Examples of Case Experience:

. Represented the Special Litigation Committee of the board of

directors of one of the country's leading software developers in

an investigation relating to an accounting fraud that occurred

at the Company from at least 1998 through 2002.

. Represented performing rights organization in arbitration to set

the license fees for music on television, including preparing

witnesses for trial, drafting pre-arbitration briefs and post-

trial submissions.

Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, Boston, MA

Litigation Associate (1999-2000, 2001-2005; Firm closed in 2005)

Litigation Experience: Drafted successful motions for preliminary

injunctions, motions to dismiss and oppositions to motions to dismiss

in complex securities fraud matters, contract disputes and merger

disputes. Drafted multiple complaints and answers with counterclaims.

Drafted and argued discovery motions for criminal and civil matters.

Prepared witnesses for deposition testimony in civil and SEC matters.

Drafted Wells submissions to the SEC and oversaw discovery in SEC

matters.

Examples of Case Experience:

. Drafted successful motions to dismiss in California federal and

state securities class actions for former outside directors of a

company that restated $500 million in revenues.

. Successfully defended former officers and directors in financial

fraud SEC investigation, persuasively limiting the imposed

sanction on former controller and company.

. Successfully defended the General Counsel of a major mutual fund

firm in connection with SEC investigations into alleged market

timing, which resulted in the negotiation of favorable

settlement terms.

Publications: Co-author of chapter on retaliatory torts in an MCLE

Business Crimes publication;

The Honorable D. Brock Hornby, United States District Court for the

District of Maine, Portland, ME

Law Clerk (2000-2001)

Assisted Judge Hornby in all aspects of trial practice, including

preparing pre-argument memoranda, attending oral arguments and trials,

drafting legal opinions and jury instructions and researching, editing and

evaluating the legal analyses in drafts of written opinions.

EDUCATION

Boston College School of Law, Chestnut Hill, MA

J.D., magna cum laude, May 1999

Activities: BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW, Managing Editor and Staff

Writer

Honors: Lyne, Woodworth & Evarts Award for Outstanding Editorial

Work on Publications

The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

B.A., cum laude, May 1996

Honors: Dean's List, (1992-96); Recipient of the Charles A. Dana

Scholarship for Academic Achievement (1995-96)

Admitted to Legal Practice

Admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts (1999) and New York (2005). Can waive

into Connecticut bar.

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