Megan K. Dorritie

Co-Partner in Charge, Corning at Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

With a focus on providing strategic and synergistic legal advice that aligns with her clients’ business and operational goals, Megan leverages her experience counseling both plaintiffs and defendants to help her clients achieve the right outcome. Megan concentrates her commercial litigation practice mainly in the areas of intellectual property, real estate tax assessment challenges, and municipal law.

Megan represents companies of all sizes in a wide range of business and IP disputes including breach of contract, tort, unfair competition, and trade secret matters.

Megan manages the tax certiorari docket for several local municipalities and school districts. She also represents a variety of taxpayers including automobile dealers, financial institutions, and supermarkets in tax assessment challenges and appeals. Megan’s tax exemption challenge experience includes representing not-for-profit organizations and energy companies in securing real property tax exemption status.

Megan has extensive experience representing towns and other municipalities on all aspects of municipal law, including governance, procurement, PILOT agreements, Article 78 proceedings, the SEQRA process, and land use and zoning.

Megan currently serves as Co-Partner-in-Charge of the Firm’s Corning office, Practice Group Leader for the Specialty and Industry Specific Litigation Group, is a member the HSE Inclusion & Equity Committee, and is co-chair of the Firm’s Associate Mentoring program.

She holds a JD from the University at Buffalo School of Law.

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  • Co-Partner in Charge, Corning

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