Meredith C. Slawe

Ms. Slawe often secures early victories to help clients avoid protracted litigation, including by developing strategies that prompt plaintiffs to dismiss their claims, achieving early dismissals through motion practice, compelling arbitration, defeating class certification and obtaining dismissals at summary judgment. Ms. Slawe also advises retailers and consumer-facing companies on risk mitigation measures in a host of areas, including data privacy, website and mobile app engagement, pricing and fees, customer communications, and advertising and marketing practices, as well as in connection with artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.

Clients regularly turn to Ms. Slawe for her extensive knowledge of cutting-edge privacy and consumer protection issues under federal and state statutes. Prior to joining Skadden, she served as head of her previous firm’s retail industry practice and co-head of its class actions practice, giving her deep experience in advising retailers and consumer companies on class actions and mitigating litigation and enforcement risk. She has handled matters in several jurisdictions involving compliance with federal and state laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act, the Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the Federal Wiretap Act, the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Consumer Privacy Act, among many others.

Ms. Slawe was elected to the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation and has been the recipient of numerous legal awards and accolades, including from The American Lawyer, Benchmark Litigation and The Legal 500. She is frequently invited to speak and write on issues pertaining to class actions, mass arbitration, privacy, consumer arbitration and the retail industry. Additionally, she has been a guest lecturer on privacy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has presented on class actions at the Annenberg School of Communications and Villanova University Law School. Ms. Slawe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion and speaks regularly on issues pertaining to women in the profession.