Megan E. King

As a member of the Litigation and Project and Resource Development departments, Megan King focuses her practice on land use, including both transactional work and litigation. She represents a wide variety of clients on real estate matters, including securing zoning and land use approvals for small and large development projects, handling eminent domain and condemnation disputes and other real estate litigation.

Her real estate litigation practice includes appellate work for land use appeals as well as representing neighbors in boundary disputes, condemnation and eminent domain cases, and real estate assessment appeals before the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas, the Commonwealth Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

On the transactional side, Megan has significant experience negotiating and drafting conservation easements for land trusts, corporations, nonprofit entities and private individuals and regularly drafts and negotiates agreements with state and local boards, agencies and governing bodies in connection with approvals of banks, retailers, restaurants, residential and industrial development.

Megan has worked toward securing site approvals for banks, retailers, restaurants, telecommunication providers, warehouses and for expansion projects for hospitals and healthcare systems. Selected experience includes:

• Negotiating a favorable settlement for a Pennsylvania hospital that was involved in a condemnation proceeding for highway construction
• Representing a family-owned farm in a complex condemnation matter
• Representing a number of private landowners in eminent domain litigation
• Acquiring land use approvals for national telecommunications providers

Prior to joining Saul Ewing LLP, Megan was an associate in a Philadelphia area law firm where she participated in various aspects of litigation, including trying cases at the arbitration level and trying cases to verdict in the Court of Common Pleas.