Attorney Julie Meaders

Practice Focus

Litigation Practice Bankruptcy and Restructuring Class Actions/Mass Actions/MDLs Environmental

About

Julie Meaders is a tenacious advocate for her clients and represents investors, bankruptcy trustees, businesses, and employees in a variety of commercial disputes, including bankruptcy-related litigation, matters involving fraudulent conveyances and breaches of fiduciary duties by directors and officers, breach of contract cases, and WARN Act litigation.

Her practice also focuses on environmental litigation, including pipeline right-of-way cases in which she represents landowners, and pollution/nuisance cases in which she represents members of affected communities.

Julie’s prior experience with insurance and personal injury defense also helps support strategy in a variety of disputes.

Experience

Represents the chapter 7 Trustee of Cox Operating in prosecuting several claims related to (1) preferences and fraudulent transfer actions exceeding $100 million; (2) claims against former officers and directors of Cox Operating relating to the collapse of the company into bankruptcy; and (3) claims against Brad Cox and other corporate insiders for corporate waste and looting.
Represents the chapter 11 Trustee in the bankruptcy case of Chateau Creole Apartments LLC to recover outstanding funds owed by insurance companies in connection with multi-million-dollar insurance claims.
Represents the Liquidating Trustee in a suit against an accountant and his firm(s), which alleges that the accountant helped the debtor’s principal steal millions of dollars of company funds and then concealed that theft, and in a related suit against an insurance company to recover outstanding funds owed in connection with the employee theft claim.
Represents the Iberville Parish School Board in a dispute arising out of a pipeline company’s failure to comply with the terms of its right-of-way agreement, thereby causing environmental harm.
Represents an automobile insurer against putative state-wide class actions alleging improper adjustment of total loss claims in cases pending in state and federal court

Professional Activities & Community Involvement

American Association for Justice, Member
Association for Women Attorneys – New Orleans, Member
Federal Bar Association, Member
International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation – Louisiana Network, Member
Louisiana Bar Association, Member

Recognitions

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, since 2025
Super Lawyers: Louisiana "Rising Star," Environmental Litigation, Business Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts: Plaintiff, General Litigation, 2025, 2026

Media

Author, “The Continuing Contractual Duty Not to Aggravate a Servient Estate: Available Damages in Pipeline Servitude Cases, and Proposed Codal and Statutory Revisions,” 35 Tul. Env’t L.J. 1, Summer 2022.
Author, Antelope Valley Groundwater Cases v. L.A. County Waterworks District No. 40, ABA Environment, Energy & Resources Blog, June 1, 2021.
Author, “County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund — Regulating Point Source Discharges Through Groundwater,” 34 Tul. Env’t L.J. 229, Winter 2021.
Author, “The Health Impacts of Petrochemical Expansion in Louisiana’s River Parishes, and Realistic Options for Affected Communities,” 34 Tul. Env’t L.J. 113, Winter 2021.
Author, “Guertin v. State — The Sixth Circuit Embraces the Substantive Right to Bodily Integrity as a Means of Holding Government Officials Accountable for Flint’s Contaminated Water Supply,” 33 Tul. Env’t L.J. 221, Summer 2020.

Panelist, “Charting New Waters: Women on the Frontlines of Coastal Law,” 30^th Annual Tulane Environmental Law and Policy Summit, March 29, 2025.

Credentials

J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School, 2021
- Editor in Chief of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal
B.A., magna cum laude with departmental honors, from Tulane University, 2011