Meyer_Joseph

Joseph Meyer

Meyer_Joseph

Joseph Meyer

Senior Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6030

Joseph Meyer represents clients in complex litigation, with a focus on appellate litigation. He has authored dozens of briefs and dispositive motions at all levels of state and federal court, including the US Supreme Court, and has argued successfully on behalf of disability-benefits recipients in a nationally significant case before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His clients include individuals, for-profit and non-profit organizations, political parties and campaigns, schools, Native American tribes, members of Congress, and congressional committees.

Mr. Meyer has deep experience in constitutional and administrative law. He also has extensive experience representing civil-rights plaintiffs, including in cases regarding reproductive rights, disability rights, tribal autonomy, cash-bail policies, and the treatment of incarcerated people. Mr. Meyer’s civil-rights practice also includes election-law litigation; for example, he has authored briefing in the US Supreme Court regarding the “independent state legislature” theory, successfully represented the Democratic National Committee in defending Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail law from constitutional challenge in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and litigated several other voting-rights cases in state and federal court. Mr. Meyer has also authored numerous amicus briefs on behalf of national-security officials, judges, prosecutors, and state and federal legislators on issues including election interference, presidential immunity, and removal to federal court of state-court proceedings against federal officials.

Prior to joining the firm in 2019, Mr. Meyer clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Watford of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, he served as a senior editor of The Yale Law Journal and as an intern for the Honorable Paul A. Engelmayer of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, Mr. Meyer was a research and opinion associate at the Constitutional Accountability Center, where he authored commentary and analysis on major cases involving marriage equality, campaign finance, voting rights, health care, free speech, and privacy.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Yale Law School, 2018

      Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal 

      Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic 

      International Refugee Assistance Project

    • BA, History, Astronomy, Amherst College, 2013

      summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa

  • Admissions

    • California

    • District of Columbia

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

    • US District Court for the District of Columbia

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Paul J. Watford, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2018 - 2019

Credentials

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