Wilson Barmeyer, a member of Sutherland’s Litigation Practice Group, focuses his practice on complex business litigation and class action defense. Wilson has represented clients in commercial litigation involving financial services, insurance, consumer finance, business valuation, intellectual property and tax controversy. As a core team member in the firm’s award-winning Legal Project Management program, Wilson is involved in developing processes and tools for improving the efficient and effective delivery of legal services.
Wilson earned a J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law where he was a member of the Georgia Law Review. He earned a B.A. in Economics, with distinction, from Cornell University and studied at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the firm, Wilson served as a law clerk for the Honorable William T. Moore, Jr. of the Southern District of Georgia.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Wilson’s recent representative experience includes:
- Defending financial services class-action litigation in state and federal courts.
- Representing a consumer products company in a dispute over the valuation of early-stage technologies.
- Representing a publicly traded corporation against a claim to pierce the corporate veil of a wholly-owned subsidiary.
- Advising clients on the enforceability of arbitration agreements in consumer and employment contracts.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Litigation Section, American Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of Georgia
- Volunteer Attorney, DC Bar Pro Bono Program
- Member, American Constitution Society
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Named to the 2012 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Co-author, “Unclaimed Property Developments in Life Insurance,” National Association of Life Companies (February 7, 2013)
- Co-author, “Unclaimed Property Developments in Life Insurance," ABA TIPS Insurance Regulation Committee Newsletter (Winter 2013)
- Co-author, “Ohio State and Federal Courts Reject Class Actions Alleging That Life Insurers Have an Affirmative Duty to Undertake Death Matches,” ABA TIPS Life Insurance Law Committee Newsletter (Summer 2012)
- Co-author, “Private Plaintiffs Seek to Require Life Insurers to Undertake Death Matches,” ABA TIPS Committee News (Winter 2012)
- Co-author, “European Court of Justice Rejects Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel,” LexisNexis International & Foreign Law Blog (September 2010)
- Co-author, "Supreme Court's 2009-2010 Term Sets Up Showdown Over Class-Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements," Westlaw Journal Class Action © 2010 Thomson Reuters (September 2010)
- Co-author, “No Class Arbitration on Parties Who Are Silent on the Issue,” the ABA Section of Litigation, Professional Liability Committee (June 2010)
- Author, “Reasonable Accommodation for Employees with Perceived Disabilities: An Alternative Approach Based on Relationship,” Louis Jackson Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law (2006)
- Author, “Georgia Water Law: The Problem of Reallocation in an Eastern Permit System,” 39 Georgia Law Review 207 (2005)
- Author, “Water Reallocation in Georgia: In not a market, then what?” 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference (2005)
- Speaker, “Class Action Litigation and Supreme Court Decisions,” Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) Litigation Summit (June 18, 2013)
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