Bruce Meyer is a Litigation partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and has been at the firm for over 25 years. Mr. Meyer has a long track record of success for clients in a wide variety of industries, including Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, GE, The Walt Disney Co., ESPN, ABC, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Repsol S.A., Westinghouse, Swiss Re, CBS, GlaxoSmithKline, Prudential, Vivendi Universal, XM Satellite Radio, eBay, the NFLPA, NBPA, and NHLPA. He has been recognized repeatedly as a Super Lawyer, in Chambers USA, The Legal 500, and by Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Meyer has extensive jury trial experience, having tried lengthy and complex cases to juries in locales across the country, including New York, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, western Massachusetts, Boston, and Texas. His trial experience also includes numerous arbitrations (including private, ICC, AAA, sports, and reinsurance arbitrations), preliminary injunction hearings, bench trials, and bankruptcy confirmation hearings.
Among other notable victories, Mr. Meyer:
- obtained punitive damages and attorneys’ fees after trial in a trade secret case involving solar panel technology;
- obtained a mandatory preliminary injunction in a high-profile case involving the launch of a major music television channel;
- successfully defended a nuclear equipment manufacturer in a multi-billion dollar product liability action, resulting in a defendant's jury verdict after a three-month trial;
- prevailed in a complex six-week reinsurance arbitration;
- achieved a complete defense verdict for a major advertiser after a three-week false advertising jury trial;
- achieved a complete defense verdict in a bankruptcy preference action against a lender;
- obtained summary judgment dismissing all claims in a suit alleging trademark, false advertising, and trade secret violations against a leading pharmaceutical company;
- won a bench trial in a landmark trademark case against the leading online auction house;
- won a bench trial involving music licensing for satellite radio; and
- prevailed in arbitrations for an industrial engine manufacturer and a leading French private equity firm.
Recently, Mr. Meyer was co-lead trial counsel in a multi-billion dollar bench trial for a leading oil and gas company.
In addition to general complex commercial litigation, areas of specialty include intellectual property, media, sports, trade secrets and false advertising law.
- In the false advertising area, Mr. Meyer has successfully represented and counseled clients including worldwide pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies on a wide variety of advertising issues, including litigations, network challenges, and proceedings before the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
- In the intellectual property area, Mr. Meyer has won cases for clients such as The Walt Disney Company, GlaxoSmithKline, eBay, XM Satellite Radio, Specialized Technology Resources, Getty Images, and the NFL Players Association in actions involving copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and trade secrets.
- In the sports area, Mr. Meyer has represented players’ unions including the NFLPA, NBPA, NHLPA, as well as professional teams, agents, and athletes, in a wide range of matters including collective bargaining, litigation, counseling, and arbitration.
Mr. Meyer has been an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law and St. John's University School of Law. He has spoken frequently on commercial litigation, intellectual property, advertising, trade secrets, sports, and product liability issues at numerous conferences and seminars and at a number of law schools, including Yale, Columbia, NYU, Marquette, Villanova, Fordham and Boston University. He is the co-author of the three-volume treatise International Sports Law and Business.
Mr. Meyer received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD, from Boston University School of Law, where he was a member of the Boston University Law Review.