Kaylan Meaza

• Defended a Fortune 500 airline in a multiphase breach of contract jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Obtained a favorable settlement following the first phase of the jury trial.
• Obtained summary judgment for a leading FinTech company, in a complex contract dispute with a former merchant.
• Counseled a leading manufacturing company in all aspects of product regulation, safety and potential hazards, including investigations, product recalls and other corrective actions, warranties, warnings, and testing.
• Negotiated and settled hundreds of claims for a global pharmaceutical company in product liability matters arising out of recalled knee injections.
• Obtained summary judgment for a Fortune 500 airline, in a complex contract dispute with a former vendor.
• Served as a member of the local counsel team for a global pharmaceutical company in multidistrict litigation involving thousands of mesh lawsuits.
• Defended and favorably resolved multiple inverse condemnation and tort actions for a local government.

Kaylan Meaza represents clients across many industry sectors – including the payment processing, transportation, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries. She has experience with a wide range of complex commercial disputes, such as breach of contract, consumer product safety and product liability, fraud, and business torts.

Kaylan received her J.D. from The University of North Carolina Law School, where she was appointed president of the Student Bar Association. During law school, Kaylan served as the criminal and administrative intern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and legal intern for Legal Aid of North Carolina. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from North Carolina State University, in political science and criminology.

Kaylan is active in the community and previously chaired the Young Professionals Advisory Committee for the Atlanta Children’s Shelter. Most recently, Kaylan was nominated to the Atlanta Children’s Shelter’s board of directors.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• The University of North Carolina (J.D., 2017)
• North Carolina State University (B.A., 2014)

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