Megan Wolfe Benett

Associate

Securities Fraud, Consumer Fraud, Commercial Torts, Aviation Law, Negligence

Megan Wolfe Benett joined Kreindler & Kreindler as an associate in 2006. She has handled matters involving state and federal consumer protection laws, complex civil and aviation litigation and product liability claims.

After graduating from Stanford University, Ms. Benett worked in Washington, D.C. at a national party committee, on a Senate campaign and at a lobbying firm. At the University of Michigan Law School, Ms. Benett was a captain of her mock trial team, completed several criminal clinical programs and volunteered at the Federal Defender Office of Michigan. Following her graduation from law school, Ms. Benett was the Albert M. Sacks Fellow at the Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute. As the Sacks Fellow, Ms. Benett supported the clinical component of CJI's criminal defense program, developed programming for the U.S. Immigration at the Millennium conference and handled her own caseload of misdemeanor and felony cases.

Ms. Benett subsequently worked in the Boston office of a large California-based law firm before leaving for a year to serve as staff counsel at the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zürich, Switzerland, where she adjudicated claims to dormant Swiss bank accounts that had been owned by victims of Nazi persecution. Upon her return to the United States, Ms. Benett was a public defender in Manhattan at the Legal Aid Society and a clerk to the Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals.