Meredith K. Boram

Counsel
Boram Meredith

Meredith Boram focuses her product liability and mass torts practice on complex pharmaceutical litigation in state and federal courts. Meredith also has a broad range of experience handling commercial litigation matters, including contract disputes, premises liability actions, and contested regulatory matters. Her experience includes conducting in-depth legal research and analysis, drafting motions and briefs, writing and responding to discovery requests, and preparing witnesses for deposition and trial. She is also experienced at managing discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) from document identification and retrieval through production and analysis of privilege.

Meredith graduated summa cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. During law school, she served as comments editor for the University of Baltimore Law Review and interned for the Honorable Michele D. Hotten on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Meredith also worked as a Rule 16 attorney with the University of Baltimore Civil Advocacy Clinic, assisting low-income Baltimore City residents in a variety of civil matters. In this role, she successfully represented an individual with a disability in a state administrative hearing, winning full restoration of her client's paratransit service benefit.

Meredith is a member of the firm's hiring committee and currently serves as the associate coordinator for the Baltimore office's summer associate program.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Member of a team that represented AltaGas Ltd. in its contested application to obtain regulatory approval in Maryland and the District of Columbia for its $9 billion acquisition of WGL and Washington Gas Light Company. Obtained approval of the transaction in both jurisdictions, creating a $17 billion North American energy company.

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Credentials
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Education

  • J.D. summa cum laude University of Baltimore School of Law 2016
    • Distinguished scholar, Royal Shannonhouse Honor Society
    • Comments editor, University of Baltimore Law Review
    • Law scholar, Criminal Law
    • President, OUTLaw Student Organization
    • Intern, the Honorable Michele D. Hotten, Maryland Court of Special Appeals
    • Rule 16 attorney, University of Baltimore Civil Advocacy Clinic
  • B.A. Government and Politics University of Maryland 2010

Bar Admissions

  • Maryland

Recognition
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  • Daily Record, Leading Women, 2021
  • The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021 – 2024

Community
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Personal Activities

  • Member, Venable Hiring Committee
  • Associate coordinator, Venable Summer Associate Program, Baltimore office