Leslie L. Meredith

Leslie L. Meredith is Counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Buckley LLP.  Ms. Meredith represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil litigation and government investigations, with a particular emphasis on the financial services industry. She has experience representing clients before the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), state attorneys general, and in federal and state courts around the country. She also has extensive experience managing complex discovery issues, including through the use of advanced analytics.

Noteworthy work includes:

• Completed a six-month secondment at a large financial institution, working as a member of the private banking legal advisory group and the litigation department
   
• Represented Universal Entertainment Corp., a large Japanese gaming manufacturer, and its subsidiary, Aruze USA, Inc., in FCPA-related litigation brought by Wynn Resorts Ltd., as well as in related parallel matters. The case involved one of the first examples of a private party using allegations of FCPA violations as an affirmative weapon to gain an upper hand in an unrelated contract dispute. After six years of litigation – during which the parties produced millions of documents, argued more than a dozen appeals and scores of motions, and took nearly 100 depositions – Wynn Resorts agreed to pay $2.6 billion to our clients just a month before trial
   
• Represented the Navajo Nation in a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. government. The Nation alleged that the U.S. had breached its fiduciary duties to the tribe by failing to properly manage, invest, and account for funds and resources the U.S. held in trust for the tribe. After many years of litigation involving facts, circumstances, and documents stretching back six decades, the firm secured a $554 million settlement on behalf of the tribe. It is the largest settlement obtained against the U.S. in any action by a single Native American tribe
   
• Defended lender-placed insurance providers in multiple putative class actions, as well as in investigations brought by the DOJ, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and state insurance regulators, including the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) and the Massachusetts Attorney General

Ms. Meredith received her J.D. from American University (cum laude) in 2011. During law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the American University Law Review. Ms. Meredith received her B.A. from Washington College (magna cum laude) in 2006.