Tyler Meade Biography

Tyler Meade has thirty years of diverse experience.

Started as a Prosecutor: Tyler began his career in 1993 as a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the California Attorney General’s Office. He spent six years in the San Francisco office training on a blend of trial and appellate work. He investigated and prosecuted financial crimes, and defended criminal convictions on appeal.

Early Civil Work: Tyler turned to civil practice in 1998. He was part of the defense team in a $330 million civil RICO class action, and served on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in a mass tort case.

The Meade Firm: Tyler founded his own civil litigation firm in 2004. His clients have ranged from regular people to high-net-worth individuals, from small and medium-sized businesses to a New York family office, one of the largest medical groups in the nation, a crypto exchange, and a publicly traded communications company.

Tyler has handled all manner of contract disputes, including many cases involving technology startups. He has deep experience with RICO, securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition claims. He is well versed in complex litigation, having litigated class actions and other complicated cases around the country. He has litigated large cases involving condominiums and fractional properties in California, Colorado, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Tyler has a record of successfully navigating complex issues of first impression, including those presented by cryptocurrencies.

Presidio ADR: Tyler became a full-time mediator in September 2022 when he launched Presidio ADR. See presidioADR.com and linkedin.com/in/tyler-meade-74166237.

Associations: Tyler is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, the Southern California Mediation Association, and the ADR sections of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the San Francisco Bar Association.

Notable Achievements:

  • $51 Million Class Action Settlement: Tyler obtained a $51 million class action settlement in a hotel-condominium case in San Diego.
  • Notable Defense-Side Win: On the defense side, Tyler obtained summary judgment and a dismissal of all claims alleged against high-profile defendants in a multimillion dollar business dispute in Boston.

Recognition:

  • National Law Journal Top Verdicts of 2009: Tyler was co-lead trial counsel in a class action trial that resulted in a $27 million judgment after two appeals. The case was featured as one of the “Top 100 Verdicts of 2009” in the National Law Journal.
  • The James Madison Freedom of Information Award: Awarded by The Society of Professional Journalists in 2022 for Tyler’s work in public record act cases.

Admissions:

  • California: California, 1992; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2012; Northern District of California, 1992; Eastern District of California, 2001; Southern District of California, 2011; Central District of California, 2011.
  • New York: New York, 2015; Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 2020; Southern District of New York, 2016; Eastern District of New York, 2016.
  • Other: S. Supreme Court, 2014; District of Colorado, 2016.

Education and Mediation Training:

  • Education: Tyler earned his B.A. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1989, and his J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco in 1992 (f.k.a. Hastings College of the Law).
  • Mediation Training: Tyler has studied mediation at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell University, and Pepperdine Law School’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Personal: An open water swimmer and lifelong sailor, Tyler is passionate about all things aquatic. He is a founding board member of the Ocean Genome Atlas Project (OGAP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed by a group of sailors and scientists to create a genomic atlas of the world’s oceans at single-cell resolution. See ogapvoyage.org. Tyler has logged thousands of ocean miles in connection with OGAP, which was recently selected as an “Ocean-Shot” by the U.S. National Committee of the UN’s Ocean Decade initiative. See oceandecade.org. He and his wife have four children and split their time between California and Florida.