Meredith Kelly

Meredith focuses her practice on representing companies and individuals in government investigations conducted by state and federal regulators. She also represents clients in complex civil litigation. Additionally, Meredith maintains an active pro bono practice, representing asylum applicants and criminal defendants in federal court.

Meredith is a former law clerk to Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She previously practiced in the government enforcement and white-collar crime group at a law firm in New York City.

Meredith’s recent representative matters include:

• Representing a public company in various state attorney general consumer protection investigations
• Representing a startup company in a Federal Trade Commission consumer protection investigation
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a pharmaceutical company in a trade secret case in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Secured dismissal of all customer claims against a broker dealer in a FINRA arbitration
• Represented a fitness club management in a breach of contract, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and tortious interference and unfair competition case in Delaware state court
• Assisted a healthcare company in an internal investigation into prescribing practices
• Represented an individual in an insider trading investigation conducted by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)*
• Represented a cryptocurrency company in an SEC investigation into whether the company sold unregistered securities and operated as an exchange*
• Secured a settlement on behalf of a Fortune 500 bank in an SEC investigation into accounting practices*
• Represented defendants in suppression proceedings and plea hearings in drug trafficking and gun possession charges in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York*  

Note: The starred representations were before joining Cooley.