Julia Meister

Practice Areas

Wealth Transfer Litigation

Private Client

Commercial Litigation

Arbitration and Mediation

State Attorneys General

Experience

Julia is a partner in Taft’s Litigation, Health & Life Sciences, and Private Client groups and heads the firm’s Wealth Transfer Litigation practice. She has served as lead trial counsel at bench and jury trials and has represented clients in appeals and in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. Julia has represented plaintiffs and defendants in challenges to estate planning documents and fiduciary conduct, notably: serving as lead trial attorney for the first will contestant to prevail in a will contest at a jury trial in Hamilton County in several decades, obtaining a jury verdict on behalf of a major national charitable organization on intentional interference with expectancy of inheritance claims in a multimillion-dollar estate, and serving as a defense team member to obtain a unanimous jury verdict for the defense in a contest of the will of the part owner of an NFL team. She counsels clients and represents them in business, class action, commercial, estate, guardianship, trust and fiduciary matters, and professional ethics and discipline matters before courts, administrative tribunals, and arbitrators.

Julia’s health care practice includes privacy, risk management, statutory compliance, and decision making. She handles disciplinary proceedings and investigations before licensing boards and professional societies. Julia also represents universities and secondary schools as outside counsel.

Education