Katie Meili focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and government enforcement matters. She represents clients across many types of industries in high-stakes cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Katie's work covers a wide range of substantive areas, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), insurance recovery, breach of contract, business torts, and financial services.
Katie has experience in all stages of litigation. She has drafted pleadings and dispositive motions, coordinated and managed offensive and defensive discovery, prepared for and taken depositions, worked with experts, drafted appellate briefs, and argued appeals.
As part of her active pro bono practice, Katie has assisted clients seeking asylum, habeas relief, and relief under the Eighth Amendment, and she assisted in securing monetary damages for a client who was the victim of a hate crime.
Katie previously served as a judicial law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Katie was a professional swimmer and a member of the United States National Team. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games, where she won a gold medal in the 4x100m medley relay and a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke. Katie remains actively involved in the swimming community. She was elected to serve on USA Swimming's Board of Directors, as the chair of USA Swimming's Ethics Committee, and on Team USA's Athletes' Commission.
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- Georgetown University (J.D. magna cum laude 2020; Order of the Coif); Columbia University (B.A. in Psychology 2013)
- Texas, District of Columbia, U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas, and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Seventh Circuits
- Law Clerk to Judge Catharina Haynes, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (2021-2022); Extern to Judge Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Spring 2019)