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 representing clients in labor and employment matters, Mr. Meyer’s practice includes representing clients in professional liability, D&O, commercial, product liability and other civil actions. Mr. Meyer has successfully tried more than sixty jury trials and numerous bench trials in state and federal court. He also regularly represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the National Labor Relations Board, and he has successfully represented clients before the Virginia Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Prior to joining O’Hagan Meyer as a founding member and president, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President and shareholder of LeClairRyan, where he chaired the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Team. He also served as in-house counsel for United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company and previously was associated with McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. Mr. Meyer has been selected for the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment) and Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite.” Mr. Meyer is the immediate past Chair of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and is past Chair of the Professional Lines Attorneys Network (PLAN) and serves on the Board of the Richmond Bar Association. He is an active member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), International Association of Defense Counsel, the Virginia Bar Association, and the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys.

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.