Megan Hottman earned her B.A. in Corporate Communications, magna cum laude, and her Juris Doctorate, both from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.  After law school, she accepted two consecutive judicial clerkships; one in Jackson County Circuit Court in Kansas City, Missouri and one in Jefferson County District Court in Golden, Colorado.  Hottman then joined a firm in Boulder, where she gained valuable experience working on large national-level consumer fraud mass actions, as well as individual personal injury cases. 

In 2010, she hung her own shingle and formed Hottman Law Office (HLO), aka "TheCyclist-Lawyer.com." Since then, Hottman has represented over 200 cyclists in their individual cases, as well as provided counsel to other lawyers, to cycling groups, bike shops, and organizations.  She has authored countless articles and also co-authored a cycling-law resource book, Bicycle Accidents, Crashes & Collisions: Biomechanical, Engineering, and Legal Aspects (Rev.Ed), (Aug 2016). 

In March 2015 Hottman and her practice were featured in an article titled "Broken Spokes" in Outside Magazine. A few months later, she was also featured on HBO Real Sports, in a "Bike Wars" episode.  In 2019, she led a group of 24 cyclists in breaking the World Record for the Longest Static Cycling class (28 hours!).

In 2022 Hottman and her co-counsel obtained a Colorado-Record-setting verdict of $353 million dollars in the wrongful death case involving Megan’s friend and former teammate, Gwen Inglis, who was hit and killed while riding her bike in 2021. The trial took place in December 2022, six months after Megan was herself hit and badly injured by a motorist in June, 2022 (while riding her bike). The verdict was amended to $403 million in post-trial motions, and later upheld on appeal.

In 2023, Megan was featured alongside several other cyclists across the globe in a cycling documentary called The Engine Inside.

COMMUNITY AND CYCLING INVOLVEMENT

A competitive cyclist and cycling enthusiast to "the n-th degree," Hottman places great value and emphasis on leading by example in the cycling community, whether mentoring newbie cyclists, or sponsoring cycling teams and events.  Her mantra is "improving lives and communities one cyclist at a time" and it is her own personal mission to get more people riding bikes, especially women.

Hottman has been racing her bike for 20+ years now, including all 4 disciplines: road, track, mountain biking and cyclocross (and has competed in 3 of their national championships), plus gravel worlds and fat bike worlds. These days, she tackles gravel events, mountain bike races, bike packing events, group rides, and commuting in all aspects of her life.