Federal Criminal Trial Lawyers

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Meg Strickler is one of the nation's leading attorneys on internet crime and technology law and is licensed to practice in Georgia, New York and California. She counsels clients on complex information privacy and security issues, theft of intellectual property, computer intrusions and online fraud. She is a preeminent trial lawyer who represents individuals and corporations, financial institutions and professional firms in criminal investigations, including SEC and tax proceedings. She also conducts extensive internal investigations for corporations and privately held businesses. In addition, she represents individuals facing tax, health care, government contracting, insider trading, cryptocurrency and bank fraud investigations. Through the years, Ms. Strickler has also chaired and lectured on a variety of transnational and international legal panels at legal seminars around the world concerning criminal law, cybercrime, cryptocurrency, anti-corruption, business crime, human rights, and international criminal law.

Meg is a member of the ABA’s Cyberspace Law Committee and published “Recent Developments in Privacy Law” in the ABA’s Business Law Journal. In 2017, Ms. Strickler was formally appointed to the International Bar Association (IBA) Cyber Security Task Force.  Along with her "Legal Dream Team” members, she won an Emmy award in 2017 for coverage of the "Hot Car Death" trial. She is the co-chair of the ITechLaw Cyber Crime Committee and the former co-chair of both the IBA Criminal Law Committee and the IBA Cyber Crime subcommittee.  She is currently North American Liaison of the IBA War Crimes Committee and an Advisory Board Member of the IBA Professional Ethics Committee.  She is also the current ABA Section on International Law Liaison to the ABA Criminal Justice Section, serves on the Steering Group for the ABA International Anti-Corruption Committee, and is the current co-chair of the ABA SIL Government and Public Interest Committee.  Meg is active in the U.S. Women’s White Collar Defense Association where she is a member of the Development Committee. 

In her practice, Ms. Strickler is very successful in speaking with law enforcement in the very early stages of a criminal investigation. At the federal level, if you are called to visit HR for questioning, if you receive a "target letter", a friendly visit or phone call from an agent or agents, or are subject to a search warrant, call Conaway & Strickler, PC immediately, and tell law enforcement/in house counsel/HR you are contacting a lawyer and will only speak to them with counsel present. For these situations, please immediately call Meg's cell phone: 646-535-8185/404-695-0500. At the state level, a detective will call or stop by and "just want to talk". Don't. It NEVER is a good idea. And no, retaining a lawyer will not influence law enforcement to think you are guilty. It is just that you must protect yourself and your rights at all times.

Ms. Strickler’s success for defending her clients is based, in part, on her study and knowledge of drug, alcohol and other addiction and dependency problems that are sometimes part of the reason her clients find themselves in trouble with the law in the first place. Ms. Strickler also works on behalf of clients and their families facing mental health issues. She works with her clients to understand how a mental health crisis may have led to her client's arrest.  She knows our criminal justice system fails our citizens and our communities in that it doesn't really take into account the great number of ways addiction problems and mental health issues can pull people and their families into the criminal justice system.  The criminal laws of our country tend to treat all persons facing arrest as "one size fits all" and it fails to take into account how problems with addictions to things as diverse as alcohol and drugs to gambling can lead people into problems with the law. She works with clients to bring these issues to the attention of law enforcement and prosecutors early, so that clients can be treated as a human being needing help and not just another statistic.  The best thing she can do for a client is to get their case dismissed before an indictment or accusation is ever drafted by the prosecutor.

Meg regularly appears on national TV where she comments on high profile cases. She has appeared on Fox, Fox Business Channel, MSNBC, HLN, CNN, CNN International, Global News in Canada and CourtTV, among others. She has also appeared on all of the Atlanta local television news programs in relation to her representation of her clients. She has also provided legal commentary on Fox radio stations throughout the country. She has been cited in print publications including People magazine, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, the Irish Independent, IBA Global Insight and Credit Union Times. Meg is also the author of many articles on international legal issues.

Meg assists Emory Law School's Kessler-Eidson Institute for Trial Advocacy, where she instructs law school students in the art of case preparation and trial advocacy. She also teaches ethics to first year Emory Law students through a three day round table discussion involving first year law students, law school faculty and practicing attorneys. She also helps Emory University School of Law's Moot Court Special Teams in their various competitions each year.

 

Areas of Practice

• Healthcare Fraud
• Benefit Fraud (Medicaid, Medicare, VA, unemployment, etc.)
• RICO / Conspiracy Actions
• Computer and Internet Crimes
• Tax Evasion
• Filing False Returns or Fictitious Information in a Tax Return
• SBA / Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loan Fraud Investigations
• Bank and Wire Fraud
• Drug Crimes
• Sex Crimes
• Forgery
• Prescription Drug Offenses
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”)
• Mail Fraud
• Money Laundering
• Mortgage Fraud
• International Extradition
• Blockchain / Cryptocurrency
• Domestic Violence
• Theft and Shoplifting Crimes

Publications

• “Recent Developments in Privacy Law” in the ABA's Business Law Journal https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/business_lawyer/2021/76_1/full-issue-202101.pdf
• Contributor to "Global Privacy Checklist" ABA Business Law Section  

https://www.americanbar.org/digital-asset-abstract.html/content/dam/aba/administrative/business_law/privacy_checklist.xlsx

• Contributor to IBA Security Guidelines

 https://www.ibanet.org/LPRU/cybersecurity-guidelines.aspx

• Recent Trends in Cybercrime Prevention

https://www.ibanet.org/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleUid=b0b13048-bf60-4bed-a097-909bec1b4008

• ‘Managing the Balance Between Big Data, Law Enforcement and the Right to Privacy’ (2014) 7(1) IBA Criminal Law and Business Crime Newsletter 9.

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association, Former co-chair Criminal Law Committee 
• International Bar Association, Former Business Crime and Criminal Law Committees, Newsletter Coordinator 
• International Bar Association, former co-chair Cyber Crime Subcommittee
• Board Member, International Bar Association Business Law International Journal 
• International Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee Advisory Board Member 
• iTechlaw - co-chair Cyber Crime Committee
• American Bar Association, Section of International Law Liaison to the Criminal Justice Section 
• American Bar Association Section of International Law co-chair Government and Public Interest Committee
• American Bar Foundation, Fellow 
• American Bar Association, Steering Group Member, International Anticorruption Committee 
• Women's White Collar Defense Association, Development Committee 

Accolades

• Top 100 Trial Lawyers, National Trial Lawyers
• Leader in Criminal Defense, Time Magazine
• One of America's Top Criminal Defense Lawyers, Newsweek Magazine
• Rising Star Superlawyer, Atlanta Magazine
• Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
• Superb Rating, AVVO
• Emmy Award for legal analysis on NBC local news affiliate 

Pro Bono Activities

• NACDL Compassionate Release Project 

Bar Admissions

• Georgia, 1997
• California, 1999 (inactive)
• New York, 2004 (inactive)
• Northern District of Georgia 
• Middle District of Georgia 
• Southern District of Georgia 
• Georgia Court of Appeals
• 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Southern District of New York
• Eastern District of New York 

Education

Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, J.D. - 1997 

Memberships

• The Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta 
• American Trial Lawyers Association 
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 
• Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 
• New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

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