About Megan
Megan Watson earned her law degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1999 after completing a B.A. in English with a minor in Women’s Studies at Muhlenberg College in 1996. Her academic path combined liberal arts and legal training, a background that informed an early interest in family law and community work.
Watson began her legal career as a law clerk at Berner & Klaw in 1998 and joined the firm after graduation in 1999. She rose through the ranks and became a partner in 2006 when the firm was known as Berner Klaw & Watson. In 2022 she shifted into a partner role at BKW Family Law LLC. She is admitted to practice in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has long worked in the Philadelphia-area court system.
Her practice centers on family law. She has taken leadership roles on issues that touch family courts, including service as Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association Family Law Section in 2012 and ongoing participation on that section’s executive and working committees. She co-chairs the Family Law Section’s Support and Alimony Committee and the Mentoring Committee. She also co-chairs the Civil Gideon Task Force’s Family Working Group, an effort that addresses access to counsel and related procedural issues in family matters.
Watson's courtroom and dispute-resolution work extends beyond litigation. She serves as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and volunteers in the court’s Volunteer Mediation Program. Her volunteer roles include work for the Support Center for Child Advocates and the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program, where she serves on the board and co-chairs the Recruitment and Retention Committee. Those roles reflect a practice that blends client representation with system-level engagement on procedural and access issues.
She maintains active involvement in a range of professional and community organizations. Current memberships include the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar associations’ family law sections, the Thomas S. Forkin Family Law American Inn of Court, the Nicholas Cipriani American Inn of Court executive committee, and local education and nonprofit boards such as the North Philadelphia Schools Advisory Council and the Washington Township Board of Education. She is also active in alumni governance through the Temple Law Alumni Association Executive Committee and in women’s philanthropy efforts such as the Lucretia Mott Society and the Young Women’s Initiative, where she serves as co-chair.
Watson practices as a partner at BKW Family Law LLC, representing clients in family law matters across Pennsylvania and New Jersey and serving in mediation and arbitration roles as part of her current practice focus.
