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Email: mfeder@jonesday.com

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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 heads the issues & appeals practice in Jones Day's New York Office. He recently argued Woodford v. Ngo, 126 S. Ct. 2378 (2006), in the United States Supreme Court, and has handled scores of federal appeals throughout the country. Meir has particularly extensive Second Circuit experience, and, in the past three years alone, has also been lead counsel in seven other federal circuits. In addition, he frequently briefs and argues dispositive motions in significant trial-level cases and has represented clients in many state courts, including the New York Court of Appeals and Appellate Division and the California and Delaware Supreme Courts. Meir has also first-chaired six jury trials in the federal district courts. He has particular experience in securities, class action, consumer, and criminal litigation.

Prior to joining the Firm, Meir 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. Meir began his career at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he represented clients in a wide range of business litigation at the trial and appellate levels, in areas including mass torts, securities, insurance, defamation, antitrust, and punitive damages.

Meir is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he co-directs the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and previously taught a course on Supreme Court practice and advocacy. He is listed as an appellate practice "Super Lawyer" in New York Super Lawyers magazine. He is a member of the Federal Bar Council and the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court as well as the Federal Courts Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

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

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

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

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