Meg Strickler

Meg Strickler is one of the nation’s leading federal criminal defense lawyers. She has deep knowledge on cryptocurrency and technology law and has tried federal jury trials on these issues. With close to three decades of experience, she is able to expertly counsel clients on complex information privacy and security issues, theft of intellectual property, computer intrusions, cryptocurrency money laundering and online fraud. She is a preeminent trial lawyer who represents individuals and corporations, financial institutions, and professional firms in criminal investigations, including SEC, False Claim Act and IRS proceedings. She also conducts extensive internal investigations for corporations and privately held businesses. She is often called up by other lawyers throughout the nation to assist in complex high stakes criminal litigation. Ms. Strickler is also very active in healthcare litigation. She represents healthcare professionals in professional license defense and administrative issues before the Georgia Composite Medical Board, the Georgia Board of Nursing and the NPDB. She also assists with any hospital privilege issues that may arise.

Ms. Strickler is an adjunct professor at Georgia State University of Law teaching Advance Evidence to JD and LLM students. She is also an instructor at Emory Law School’s Kessler-Eidson Institute for Trial Advocacy, teaching students the art of case preparation and trial advocacy. Additionally, she 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 through the State Bar of Georgia’s Committee on Professionalism and the State of Georgia’s Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. She also helps Emory University School of Law’s Moot Court Special Teams in their various competitions each year.

She is also a member of the ABA’s Cyberspace Law Committee and has published “Recent Developments in Privacy Law” in the ABA’s Business Law Journal for several years, with her latest article published in February, 2026. Ms. Strickler was recently appointed to the ABA Anti-Corruption Committee Steering Group and is the former co chair of the IBA Professional Ethics Committee. She was also the former co-chair of the iTechLaw Cyber Crime Committee. She currently is the ABA Section of International Law Liaison to the Criminal Justice Section. Meg is also very active in the U.S. Women’s White Collar Defense Association where she was a co-chair of the Newsletter Committee. Through the years, Meg has also chaired and lectured on a variety of transnational and international legal panels at legal seminars around the world concerning criminal law, anti-corruption, business crime, human rights, and international criminal law and co-chaired a conference in Dublin in June 2024. She is scheduled to do a presentation in Lisbon in June, 2026. Meg regularly appears on national TV, Court TV, Law and Crime Network and podcasts where she comments on high profile cases.