Mr. Meyer’s practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling, and he represents employers in a wide variety of employment litigation matters, including defense of wrongful discharge claims; breach of employment contracts and restrictive covenants; disability discrimination claims under the ADA; age discrimination claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; actions filed under the Family Medical Leave Act and Fair Labor Standards Act; and claims of unlawful harassment and race and gender discrimination under Title VII and Section 1981. In addition to counseling employers concerning personnel policies and employment discrimination, Mr. Meyer has successfully tried more than forty jury trials and numerous bench trials in state and federal court. He also regularly represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Virginia Employment Commission, and he has successfully represented clients before the Virginia Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining LeClairRyan in 1998, Mr. Meyer served as in-house counsel for United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company and previously was associated with McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. In 1988, Mr. Meyer received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, where he also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He later graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters of Philosophy in 1989 and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992. Mr. Meyer has been selected for the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment) and Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite.” Mr. Meyer is an active member of the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and the Richmond Bar Association. Mr. Meyer regularly lectures on employment law issues facing clients across the country, and he serves as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law.