education
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Cornell University, B.S., Dean's List Honors
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Brooklyn Law School, J.D., Cum Laude
Admitted in
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New Jersey
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New York
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megan dubatowka
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Megan Dubatowka represents individuals and companies in commercial and employment litigations, arbitrations, and mediations, and in business and contractual matters. A tenacious results-oriented advocate, she listens and tailors her approach to each client’s unique circumstances to achieve favorable outcomes.
Individuals often turn to Ms. Dubatowka at critical moments to confront career-threatening crises. She has successfully represented employers and employees in a full range of employment matters, including contract negotiations, discrimination claims, class action wage and hour claims, compensation disputes, terminations, whistleblower complaints, and disputes regarding restrictive covenants. She also has extensive experience conducting investigations and drafting independent reports concerning sexual harassment allegations and whistleblower complaints brought against companies. She likewise strategically counsels individual employees navigating workplace investigations that threaten their reputation and livelihood. Ms. Dubatowka represents employees at all levels, including C-suite, mid-level, and those earlier in their careers, and approaches every case with a focus on achieving results.
Ms. Dubatowka also provides practical transactional advice to companies and executives. In this capacity, she has advised clients in the cannabis industry, offering services ranging from business organization and formation to fundraising, dispute resolution, and litigation.
Recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for the past seven years, her significant representations include:
Successful representation of entrepreneur against real estate brokerage Compass in multi-year litigation resulting in Compass recognizing the client as a founding team member and publicly reporting a $21 million legal charge in connection with the settlement.
Achieved a $3.9 million settlement against Wells Fargo on behalf of a class of financial advisors.
A 2022 JAMS arbitration award of over $2.7 million (including liquidated damages and attorneys’ fees) for breach of contract, quantum meruit, and violation of the New York Labor Law arising out of employer’s improper withholding of former employee’s earned bonus based on net profits of a transaction for which he was the lead investment banker.
Winning in 2021 over $2.2 million in a FINRA arbitration for a former Leveraged Finance executive at a global investment bank whose deferred compensation was wrongfully withheld for allegedly failing to provide required “retirement” notice and allegedly engaging in “competitive activity” by joining a specialized private equity firm.
Representation of a leading California cannabis testing lab, its officers and directors, and shareholders in multi-jurisdiction litigation against its former Chief Executive Officer. Following a successful JAMS arbitration, the former CEO voluntarily dismissed a 13-count derivative complaint filed against the company and over 50 stakeholder defendants.
Successful representations of numerous senior female employees in employment and termination disputes, including a senior risk officer at a Fortune 100 financial services company, the senior-most sales executive at a publicly traded technology company, and a senior sales executive at a high-profile social media company.
Counsel to a startup luxury organic CBD company in all phases of its business organization, from drafting startup documents to providing strategic advice regarding business expansion, including advising on vendor relationships, intellectual property, and efforts to raise investment capital.
Ms. Dubatowka holds a Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University, where she earned Dean’s List honors. She graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. Ms. Dubatowka is admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey.
Ms. Dubatowka was recently named in MG Magazine’s Ladies Who Litigate feature about the top women litigators in the U.S. cannabis industry.