Jill Brenner Meixel

Jill Brenner Meixel concentrates her practice in the fields of complex business litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal defense. Some of her recent work includes:

	•	Assisted in obtaining a judgment as a matter of law in favor of a laser vision device manufacturer in a patent infringement action, resulting in the federal district court's reversal of a $17.2 million jury verdict;
	•	Assisted in the defense of a major pharmaceutical company in civil and criminal actions;
	•	Represented an inmate in an action against the Massachusetts Parole Board for state and federal constitutional law violations; and
	•	Analyzed various provisions of the USA Patriot Act, including its impact on venture capital companies.

Jill graduated, cum laude, with a government degree from Harvard College in 1996. She received her J.D. in 2001 from Northeastern University School of Law, where she was a head teaching assistant for Legal Practice, the first-year writing class. While at Northeastern, Jill interned in the Drug Task Force Unit at the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, and worked as a judicial intern to the Hon. Joseph L. Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts. She also participated in the Craven National Constitutional Law Moot Court competition. From 2001 to 2003, she was a litigation associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Jill traveled internationally competing in junior, collegiate and professional tennis tournaments, and was a member of a national championship college tennis team.

Jill has provided pro bono legal assistance for the New England Innocence Project, which aims to exonerate wrongly convicted inmates based on the use of DNA technology.

Jill co-authored "Targeting Terror Dollars: Some Lessons From the Drug War," published in Andrews Publications' White-Collar Crime Reporter, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 2001, and "A Practical Guide to Defining the Heartland for Downward Departure Purposes," published in the Boston Bar Association's Criminal Law Section Newsletter, January 2002.

Jill is a member of the American and Boston Bar Associations. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

For the second year in a row, Jill was named by Boston Magazine as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer Rising Star in the category of Business Litigation.