Margaret McGannon is a Partner at McLaughlin & Stern. Her practice focuses on general commercial litigation and employment law, as well as various start-up and corporate matters. She frequently advises both employees and employers on employment and separation agreements and the resolution of discrimination claims.

Ms. McGannon joined McLaughlin & Stern in 2026, along with her colleagues from Kent Beatty & Gordon, LLP.  Earlier in her career, Ms. McGannon practiced litigation in New York City, and she previously served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Douglas McCullough of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Ms. McGannon received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she interned with the North Carolina Attorney General’s Special Litigation Division and Legal Services of Southern Piedmont. She also holds an M.Ed. from Arizona State University, earned while serving as a Teach for America corps member teaching eighth-grade science in Glendale, Arizona, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Duke University, where she served as Vice President of Duke Student Government.

Ms. McGannon is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York. She was named a 2025 Super Lawyers Rising Star.