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• Issues & Appeals
  • Appellate Advocacy in the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Appellate Litigation in Other Federal & State Courts
  • Trial Litigation in Federal & State Courts

Meir Feder has argued appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and in eight federal circuits; he also briefs and argues state court appeals and dispositive motions in significant trial-level cases. He has significant experience in multiple practice areas, including securities, antitrust, class action, consumer, criminal, and employment litigation.

Meir recently obtained the dismissal with prejudice of a putative securities class action seeking more than $20 billion in damages, In re Dell Inc. Securities Litigation, 591 F. Supp. 2d 877 (W.D. Tex. 2008), and successfully appealed a federal district court ruling casting doubt on Macy's companywide binding arbitration program, Manigault v. Macy's, 2009 WL 765006 (2d Cir. 2009). He also recently obtained a summary judgment in a putative consumer class action seeking up to $3 billion in statutory damages, and then successfully argued the resulting appeal, Levine v. World Financial Network, 554 F.3d 1314 (11th Cir. 2009).

Meir heads the Issues & Appeals Practice in Jones Day's New York Office. Prior to joining the Firm, he was deputy chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Before assuming that supervisory position, he prosecuted cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office ranging from bank and health care fraud to international narcotics trafficking, and tried seven cases in federal district court.

Meir has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he has taught Supreme Court practice and advocacy and co-directed the school's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

New York Super Lawyers magazine — appellate practice (2006 and 2007)

New York; District of Columbia; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits; and U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Harvard Law School (J.D. magna cum laude 1989; Supreme Court Editor, Harvard Law Review; argued for championship team, Ames Moot Court Competition); Columbia University (B.A. summa cum laude 1986)

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York: Deputy Chief of Appeals Unit (2001 and 2002-2003) and Assistant U.S. Attorney, Criminal Division (1997-2003)

Law Clerk to: Justice David H. Souter, U.S. Supreme Court (1990 Term) and Judge William A. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1989-1990)