Passadori, Diana

Meir Feder has argued appeals in the United States Supreme Court and in eight federal circuits; he also briefs and argues state court appeals and dispositive motions in significant trial-level cases. He has significant experience in multiple practice areas, including securities, antitrust, class action, consumer, criminal, and employment litigation.

Meir currently represents American Needle in the United States Supreme Court in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, No. 08-661. His recent matters include obtaining the dismissal with prejudice of a putative securities class action against Dell seeking more than $20 billion in damages; successfully appealing a federal district court ruling casting doubt on Macy's companywide binding arbitration program; and obtaining summary judgment, and affirmance on appeal, in a putative Fair Credit Reporting Act class action against Experian seeking up to $3 billion in statutory damages.

Meir heads the Issues & Appeals Practice in Jones Day's New York Office. Prior to joining the Firm, he was deputy chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Before assuming that supervisory position, he prosecuted cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office ranging from bank and health care fraud to international narcotics trafficking, and tried seven cases in federal district court.

Meir has also served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he has taught Supreme Court practice and advocacy and co-directed the school's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.