Law Office of Tamatha Meek, PC
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Attorney Profile
After two decades in practice and fifteen years working for a boutique firm focusing on representing executives and employees in their transitions with companies, Tamatha Meek determined it was time to hang out her own shingle. She started her own law firm intent on continuing to provide top quality representation to executives, entrepreneurs, and company founders. Ms. Meek is experienced in corporate, executive employment and litigation matters. Ms. Meek has negotiated and supported her executive and entrepreneur clients through hundreds (if not thousands) of contracts. While Ms. Meek strongly believes in and supports negotiated resolution, she is also an experienced litigator and will utilize the full weight of her litigation and arbitration experience to best support her clients. In one 9-month period, Ms. Meek arbitrated to a conclusion 3 cases. Over her career, she has litigated matters and arbitrated other cases before JAMS, the American Arbitration Association, and FINRA on behalf of both corporate and individual clients against a Fortune 100 company as well as a Fortune 100 private company.
Ms. Meek earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, where she double-majored in political science and philosophy and became a life-long Wolverine. Before attending graduate school, Ms. Meek began her career as a management consultant in Philadelphia. Ms. Meek spent four years in gorgeous Ithaca, NY while earning her J.D. from Cornell Law School and M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. While there she was awarded the Olin Scholarship for the study of Law and Economics and served as a Managing Editor for the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. Ms. Meek is licensed to practice law in California, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and the District of Columbia.
Ms. Meek most recently worked at the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein, PC, a boutique employee & executive focused law firm. Previously, she worked in-house at a multi-national industrial company and financial institution. She began her legal career at the law firm of Fried Frank in their D.C. office, focusing on both corporate transactional and securities work.
Through her career, Ms. Meek has contributed to articles, books, and presentations. In recent years, she has provided research and editing assistance on two books in the field: “Negotiate Like A CEO” and “Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees.” While at Fried Frank, she co-authored “Highlights of Judicial Decisions and Administrative Actions Regarding the Federal Securities Laws,” published in The Securities Reporter, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Spring 2005. She also provided research assistance to the authors of the chapter “Research Analyst Conflicts of Interest,” published in The Practitioner’s Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2004.
Ms. Meek has extensive experience representing entrepreneurs, executives and employees in their professional negotiations—as they navigate their employment and separation agreements. She has also represented buyers and sellers in multi-million dollar transactions, including preparing consulting and non-compete agreements, as well as counseling individuals on a wide-variety of corporate matters.
Experience
The Law Office of Tamatha Meek professionals have decades of experience representing executives, entrepreneurs and company founders. We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with professionals both as they begin their employment relationship with an entity and as they prepare to exit it for their next professional chapter. The Law Office of Tamatha Meek PC (“LOTM”) welcomes the opportunity to discuss your particularized needs and goals to help you determine if we are the right firm for your current or future professional needs.
We provide support on:
Employment Agreements
Transition Agreements
Separation Agreements
Corporate Formation and Governing Document Preparation
Transaction Representation
Employment and Corporate Advising
Transition Agreements
At times either you or your employer may determine that a transition is approaching but that the time for separation is not yet at hand. During these sensitive periods, we work closely with clients to ensure that their rights are protected even as they are often navigating an approaching transition and likely want to preserve positive relationships with their employer.
Separation Agreements
Zealous advocacy and sensitivity can be essential in this likely stressful period. While the vast majority of my clients want to ensure that they are treated fairly, they typically want to do so in a professionally reasonable manner that works with the soon-to-be former employer. In healthy situations, all parties value a smooth and professionally appropriate transition. However, if you are not on the receiving end of a less-than-professional separation no doubt a colleague, friend or family member has been. In these circumstances clients I find clients often want not only the support and benefit of experienced and empathetic legal counsel, but an attorney with the background to fight for your rights and resist company efforts to minimize or re-frame the separation, an exceptionally common tactic. I welcome the opportunity for clients and companies to resolve matters with the support of counsel, outside of courtrooms, but with significant experience litigating, arbitrating and mediating employment disputes and separations, appreciate that at times litigation and arbitration are necessary to reach the appropriate conclusion.
Corporate Formation and Governing Document Preparation
We have supported clients as they form and grow their own companies, reviewing and discussing myriad initial considerations including corporate structure, ownership and equity interests, anticipated growth and future funding needs. With a unique perspective acquired from decades of assisting executives and employees, LOTM is well-positioned to advise corporate clients on how to establish its corporate foundation to respect and incentivize its founders, executives, employees and future stakeholders.
Transaction Representation
Whether a founder, management team member, executive or employee about to be impacted by a transaction or liquidity event, LOTM is here to support you and advocate for your rights! Company counsel is precisely that—they represent the Company and its best interests. If you and your colleagues see a corporate transaction, or any liquidity event approaching, get the benefit of your own counsel—lawyers who represent your best interests and zealously advocate for what you deserve, and ones who will push back when company counsel says you are holding up the entire deal to pressure you to sign at suboptimal terms! True believers that a rising tide lifts all ships, LOTM wants to make sure you participate fairly in the fruits of your and your colleagues’ labor. Call if you have any questions about this eventful area of our representation or wonder if your company is moving towards a transaction where you need to protect yourself, your team and your interests.
Employment and Corporate Advising
Having assisted clients at all stages of their corporate lives, both in their individual professional capacities as well as they form, grow and sell businesses, we welcome the opportunity to assist new or seasoned executive and company founders in their ongoing professional evolution.
Education
1998 University of Michigan, B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy
2002 Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, M.B.A.
2003 Cornell Law School, J.D.
Olin Award Recipient for Law & Economics
Teaching Assistant for IPOs and Deal Structure Alternatives
Teaching Assistant for Law for High Growth Businesses
Ms. Meek is admitted in:
California
New York
Washington, D.C.
Illinois
Michigan
Please reach out if you would like to discuss possible representation or have questions about our firm’s approach to employment matters.