Meredith is a seasoned technology and data use and governance attorney focused on both disputes and on licensing and outsourcing transactions and data use and governance strategy, including with respect to AI. Her extensive litigation and arbitration experience provide a unique and valuable perspective in identifying and mitigating risk, and in the front-end of developing critical business relationships. Meredith recognizes that the most successful collaborations and contracts are created with a full understanding of how to allocate risk between parties and a pragmatic understanding of how contract language is likely to be deployed in practice or interpreted by a judge or arbitrator should a dispute arise. Whether it be in a board room, a conference room or in a court room, Meredith’s clients have recognized her for bringing equal parts strategic vision and precision in execution to every matter she handles.
Meredith also has a true passion for championing the advancement of women in the legal profession. As Chair of the Mintz Women’s Initiative, she collaborates with external thought leaders and visionaries, and a number of in-house and in-firm lawyers to create and drive programs and initiatives that support sponsorship, mentorship, advancement and retention of women attorneys in law firms.
Experience
Technology Transactions & Related Litigation Experience
- Representing a diverse group of clients in drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex technology transactions and license agreements
- Representing large clients in sensitive separations from critical professional services provider relationships
- Representing clients in navigating and responding to software audit requests from key software vendors
- Representing a large financial institution in launching arrangements with other financial institutions and data aggregators to enable consumers to securely access and control the flow of their data
- Representing global financial institutions in negotiated terminations of long-term technology vendor relationship, including wind-downs of large outsourcing arrangements and the negotiation of transition services agreements
- Representing a public sector client in a high-profile investigation and subsequent vendor dispute regarding a failed health care information technology project implementation
- Represented a major health care provider in its negotiated termination of its relationship with one of its core technology providers
- Led a “bet the company” arbitration on behalf of a publicly owned biotech, and obtained a successful settlement of an arbitration based on competing claims under the parties’ licensing agreement
- Achieved a favorable resolution on behalf of a major academic center in federal court litigation concerning a collaboration agreement and ownership of the resulting intellectual property
- Represented a publicly owned biotechnology company in an arbitration over a multibillion-dollar drug development collaboration. The arbitration resulted in a victory which confirmed the client’s right to co-develop one of the world’s largest-selling cancer drugs
Additional Experience
- Achieved a decisive arbitration victory on behalf of a supplier in a complex contractual dispute with an automobile manufacturer, resulting in an award of over $10M plus attorneys’ fees and expert costs
- Led a litigation team representing an international energy company in a dispute over control of a multibillion-dollar company in the Delaware Chancery Court
- Led a public life sciences company Audit Committee investigation into improper revenue recognition activities
- Obtained an award of summary judgment and the recovery of a significant award of attorneys’ fees and expert costs on behalf of several medical and dental technology private equity portfolio companies in a complex contract dispute
- Represented a major life insurance company in an arbitration proceeding against its reinsurer regarding a rate increase.
viewpoints
FTC Complaint Against Rite Aid Signals New Paradigm for Evaluating AI Technology Use
January 30, 2024 | Blog | By Meredith M. Leary, Sav R. Arguello
FINRA Annual Report Highlights Why Artificial Intelligence Data Management and Vendor Selection Protocols are Critical for Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
January 11, 2024 | Blog | By Meredith M. Leary, Sav R. Arguello
India Orders Shutdown Impacting Millions of Outsourced Technology and Financial Sector Workers
March 26, 2020 | Alert | By Julie Korostoff, Meredith M. Leary, Laura A. Stacey
News & Press
The Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 184 Mintz Attorneys across 56 Practice Areas
August 15, 2024
187 Mintz attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Notably, three Mintz attorneys received 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” awards, and 64 firm attorneys were included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Mintz recently filed an amicus brief urging the US Supreme Court to protect access to emergency care for pregnant women under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in the consolidated cases Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States that the Court will hear on April 24th.
The FINRA Reports That May Foreshadow New AI Rules
February 6, 2024
Mintz is pleased to announce that 120 firm attorneys have been recognized as leaders by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Best Lawyers® recognized 108 firm attorneys in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Notably, two Mintz attorneys – Poonam Patidar and Scott M. Stanton – received 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” awards, and 28 firm attorneys were included in the inaugural edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Mintz Earns WILEF 2020 Gold Standard Certification
July 21, 2020
The Supreme Court’s Upcoming Decision in the DACA Cases Could Place LGBTQ Recipients at Serious Risk
November 11, 2019
Who’s the Boss? She is.
November 4, 2019
Mintz’s Second Annual “She’s The Boss” Event Draws Record Crowd, Inspires Future Female Leaders
October 12, 2019
Events & Speaking
Third-Party Risk & Vendor Risk Management: Leveraging Existing Frameworks to Navigate New Frontiers
Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek
Collecting Financial Data: Data Aggregation Workflow, Transparency & Consent
International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit 2022
Washington, D.C.
The Fine Print Matters: Negotiating Boilerplate Contract Clauses Through the Litigator’s Lens
Mintz & ACC New York City, ACC Northeast
Webinar
The Executive Suite & The Legal Team: Working Together to Create a More Diverse Culture
Women in Legal & Corporate Leadership Summit - Boston
Online
19th Annual Business Litigation Conference 2020
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. New England
MCLE Conference Center 10 Winter Place Boston, MA
Shhh: Just Between You and Me!
Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege
Mintz - 1 Financial Center, Boston, MA 02111
Governance & Shareholder Engagement in the Post-IPO World
Equilar and NASDAQ
The Four Seasons Silicon Valley, East Palo Alto, CA
Recognition & Awards
Best Lawyers in America: Commercial Litigation (2023-2025)
Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star – Business Litigation (2006-2008, 2013 - 2014)
Order of the Coif