Joseph L. Meadows
Joseph L. Meadows is a former DOJ Honors Program trial attorney and current litigation partner with Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia offices. He focuses on Internet defamation, cyberattacks, e-commerce, and business dispute matters. Since 1998, Joe has tried cases before judges and juries, arbitrated commercial disputes, and argued trial and appellate matters in federal and state courts.
Joe founded Internet defamation practice areas at his current and prior law firms. He has litigated and counseled clients in the pursuit or defense of defamation, libel, product disparagement, invasion of privacy, and derivative claims. He is connected with a number of digital forensics and public relations crisis experts. He has been retained as an expert witness in defamation law, featured as a defamation litigator in national articles and on radio shows, and presented on Internet defamation for CLE programs.
Joe is licensed to practice in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. He received his B.S. in Accounting (cum laude) from Wake Forest University, his J.D. (Order of the Coif) from West Virginia University College of Law, and LL.M. in Taxation (with Distinction) from Georgetown University Law Center. He also passed the North Carolina CPA exam. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children.