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Kathleen McGuigan
Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Kathleen McGuigan is RILA’s Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. McGuigan supports the Retail Litigation Center advocating on behalf of the retail industry by filing amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state courts. She also leads RILA’s deputy general counsel level committee, which provides innovative and quality education on a wide range of issues, including class action and employment litigation trends, privacy, and regulatory compliance, to senior level retail in-house counsel. In addition, McGuigan manages RILA’s compliance offerings and heads up RILA’s Compliance Council (comprised of chief compliance and ethics officers), Finance Leaders Counsel (companies’ chief finance officers, chief accounting officers and controllers), and Internal Audit Committee (senior internal audit executives) and has oversight over RILA’s Consumer Product Committee.
Prior to joining RILA, McGuigan was in-house counsel for JCPenney where she was the lead attorney for the company’s international operations and handled trade, customs, contract, FCPA, antitrust, regulatory compliance, and corporate social responsibility matters. McGuigan started her legal career as a federal government attorney working for the Office of International Law, U.S. Department of Transportation; Civil Division, Department of Justice; and Office of Chief Counsel, US Customs Service.
McGuigan graduated from the University of San Francisco with a BA in History and minors in Business and English. She has her JD from Loyola Law School, Loyola and Marymount University and an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law School.
Latest Insights from Kathleen McGuigan

SCOTUS Texts STOP to End TCPA Abuse
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 04/01/2021

Recap: Retail Product Safety at ICPHSO
- By [Kathleen McGuigan, Susan Kirsch, Luisa Lobo]
- 03/30/2021
Internal Audit Committee Virtual Meeting 2020
- By [Tom Casey, Kathleen McGuigan]
- 11/04/2020

Retailers, Restaurants Want SCOTUS to Protect Text Messages
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 09/14/2020
New Trends in Corporate Compliance Programs
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 08/13/2020

How Retail Internal Audit Departments can Stay Relevant
- By [Tom Casey, Kathleen McGuigan]
- 08/04/2020
DOJ Compliance Program Guidance
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 07/21/2020

Maximizing Value of Unsold Inventory
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 05/21/2020
COVID-19 Risk Management: Respond, Recover, Thrive
- By [Kathleen McGuigan]
- 05/14/2020

Ensuring Safe, Responsibly Sourced, and Sustainable Products
- By [Kathleen McGuigan, Erin Hiatt]
- 03/10/2020