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Douglas H. Meal
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T + 1-617-951-7517
F + 1-617-235-0232
+ 1-617-854-2217 secretary
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Practice
Doug Meal, a partner in the firm's litigation group since 1989, handles complex commercial litigation of all types, centering his practice on representing companies in transaction-related disputes arising from all varieties of business agreements.
Professional Experience
He also has experience handling securities, bankruptcy, construction, antitrust, copyright, insurance, product safety, intellectual property, banking, freight, false advertising, RICO, trademark, and unfair trade practice cases. In the course of his practice, he has appeared in state and federal courts located in more than thirty different states; has handled arbitration proceedings both in the United States and abroad; and has defended numerous state and federal governmental enforcement proceedings.
Honors & Awards
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004, 2007, 2008)
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1983
- Massachusetts, 1980
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Clerkships
- Honorable Robert J. Ward, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1980 - 1982)
Education
- 1981,
M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
- 1980,
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School; Notes and Comments Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal
- 1976,
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
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