Megan Michelle Waida

Megan Waida is a Senior Attorney in The Lanier Law Firm’s Issues and Appeals section in Houston. Her focus is the legal writing and strategy behind large cases: motions, jury instructions, and arguments that hold up on appeal.

Megan started her career at Lanier in 2012 in the firm’s asbestos and mesothelioma practice, representing victims of asbestos exposure. Over time her work has grown beyond asbestos, and she now takes on a variety of issues for the firm. Because she has handled cases in many states, she knows how different jurisdictions’ laws can change what a motion needs to say, and she is skilled at picking up a motion and quickly working out where it should go.

Megan has also supported the firm’s trial teams. In the Canoga Park contamination litigation, she took primary responsibility for pretrial motions and for drafting proposed jury instructions and charges, and she attended the trial to address legal issues as they came up. In 2018, she joined the Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson trial team and handled all briefing for two of the case’s asbestos experts.

Megan has been named to the National Law Journal’s Appellate Hot List and to the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in the Civil Plaintiff category. She is a member of the American Association for Justice and is licensed by the State Bar of Texas. She is also admitted to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits.