EXPERIENCE

Meredith has played a key role in several of the most high-profile matters in California in recent years, bringing efficiency, attention to detail and a trial-ready instinct to her cases. Meredith approaches each matter as if it is going to trial by crafting winning strategies from the outset; clients trust her to prepare their most important witnesses to testify.

Meredith’s recent engagements and achievements include:

• serving as trial counsel for an airline whose acquisition by a horizontal competitor was challenged by the United States Department of Justice under the Clayton Act.
• winning a significant Ninth Circuit appeal on behalf of a professional swimming league in an antitrust action against the international sports federation that currently oversees global competition in swimming and other aquatic sports alleging that the defendant engaged in anti-competitive behavior by, among other claims, conspiring in a group boycott with national federations to block the league from entering the market.
• securing the dismissal with prejudice, affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, of an antitrust class action brought by consumers against several major banks alleging that the defendants conspired to fix the London Interbank Interest Rate (LIBOR) and that the setting of USD ICE LIBOR is per se unlawful under the antitrust laws.
• securing the dismissal of multiple separate putative class actions brought against a cryptocurrency exchange platform concerning the listing of certain algorithmic stablecoins.
• securing the dismissal of an SEC lawsuit brought against a cryptocurrency company, its co-founder and its CEO alleging that the defendants had altogether conducted over $2.6 billion in unregistered securities transactions through the sale of a digital asset, including a significant summary judgment victory in which the Southern District of New York held that the sale of a digital asset on public exchanges does not constitute the sale of unregistered securities.
• serving as co-lead trial counsel for two online pharmacies in a high-stakes defamation and unfair competition dispute with a pharmacy benefit manager.
• serving as trial counsel for a leading technology company concerning a dispute with a major video game and software developer that asserted antitrust claims related to the mobile app distribution and payment markets.
• securing the dismissal of a putative antitrust class action brought against a leading technology company in the Northern District of California related to subscription streaming game services.
• winning a defense victory at trial on behalf of a major technology company in a $750 million unfair competition lawsuit in Boston federal court. The court rejected nearly every one of plaintiffs’ arguments, including all damages claims, delivering a complete defense verdict.
• securing the favorable settlement of a high-profile trade secrets matter concerning self-driving cars, which resolved after four days of evidence at trial.
• successfully obtaining summary judgment in favor of an audio technology company in a fraud, tort and statutory securities suit brought in California state court.
• representing a major software and technology company in various matters concerning intellectual property and contracts, including a major patent and copyright trial in the Northern District of California.
• winning a complete defense verdict as a member of the trial team that represented a top technology company in a high-profile billion-dollar federal antitrust class action concerning the portable music device industry.
• securing a favorable outcome as a member of the trial team that represented a Bay Area-based medical device and technology startup in a patent inventorship dispute in the Northern District of California.
• winning a favorable appellate decision as a member of the appellate team in Perry Schwarzenegger, which upheld the trial court’s opinion that established a constitutional right to marry for gay and lesbian citizens in California.

Meredith is a leader in the Bay Area legal community. In 2022, she was selected for a three-year term as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference for the Northern District of California. She serves on the Board of the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers and of the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and sits on the Advisory Board of the East Bay Community Law Center, one of the largest non-profit organizations offering free legal services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meredith previously served as a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where she taught Federal Litigation in a Global Context for three years. She regularly presents on intellectual property and trial practice issues for legal industry, educational and trade groups.

While at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Meredith served as an extern at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in San Francisco. She was Senior Supervising Editor of the California Law Review and received the Thelen, Marrin Prize for Law Journal Writing in 2009. Meredith previously clerked for the Hon. John C. Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.