Doug Meal is currently an Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity Litigation at Cleveland State University College of Law and Boston College Law School. He is also a member of the AAA鈥檚 National Roster of Arbitrators and in that capacity regularly serves as an arbitrator in complex business and commercial disputes. During his long career as a practicing trial lawyer, he defended numerous clients targeted by litigation and government investigations stemming from major privacy and cybersecurity incidents. Based on that work,听Chambers USA听named Meal as the first-ever 鈥淏and 1鈥� litigator in the Privacy and Data Security category, describing him as being 鈥渞egarded by market sources as the leading privacy litigator in the USA鈥� and 鈥渢he dean of the data breach litigation Bar." Meal's many private-practice successes included leading the team that prevailed in the closely watched听LabMD v. FTC听litigation, convincing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to become the first court ever to overturn a cybersecurity enforcement action by the FTC. Meal has been recognized seven times as one of听The Cybersecurity Docket鈥檚 Incident Response 40 鈥� a list of the top 40 incident response lawyers in the United States. He is also a six-time听Law360听Privacy MVP.听
