To vigorously represent my clients’ interests at every stage of litigation, I work hard to pinpoint when to be aggressive, when to negotiate, when to seek a court’s intervention, and when to shut my office door and strategize in silence.”
Jill Brenner Meixel, an associate in the Firm’s litigation group, has significant experience representing individuals, for-profit and non-profit entities in litigation involving commercial, real estate, employment, and general litigation matters. Jill is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a member of the Boston and Women’s Bar Associations.
Jill has been named four times as a Super Lawyer Rising Star in Boston Magazine, most recently in 2009.
Prior to joining the Firm, Jill was a litigation associate at Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, where she concentrated her practice in the fields of complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and employment litigation. During that time, Jill assisted in the representation of the prevailing party in a trial in Connecticut state court resulting in a $27 million jury verdict on tort claims against a subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company. From 2001 to 2003, she was a litigation associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP. During that time, she provided pro bono legal assistance to the New England Innocence Project, which aims to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates based on the use of DNA technology.
Jill received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University, cum laude, and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. During law school, she interned in the Drug Task Force Unit at the United States Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts, and worked as a judicial intern to the Hon. Judge Joseph L. Tauro, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. She also participated in the Craven National Constitutional Law Moot Court competition.
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 Brenner Meixel
Krokidas & Bluestein LLP
600 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
617.482.7211 (p)
617.482.7212 (f)
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