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Meredith R. Dearborn

Partner, Dunn Isaacson Rhee

415-301-2003mdearborn@dirllp.com

345 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94104

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Meredith Dearborn is an experienced, dynamic trial lawyer based in California who has handled high-profile matters for some of the world’s largest tech clients, including more than a dozen major federal and state trials. Called “extremely talented” and “a brilliant strategist who synthesizes legal analysis like no one I have ever seen," Dearborn marshals evidence and tackles thorny legal issues with dogged energy and focus.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2027 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Investigations Lawyers 2026 Litigation, Investigations
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers 2026 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2026 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers 2025 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2025 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2024 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust
Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2022 Technology Litigation, inc. IP, Antitrust

Dearborn is a leader in the Bay Area legal community. She sits on the Board of the Northern California chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. She has served as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference for the Northern District of California, on the board of the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and the Advisory Board of the East Bay Community Law Center. Dearborn taught at Stanford Law School for three years.

While at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Dearborn externed for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in San Francisco. She was the Senior Supervising Editor of the California Law Review and received the Thelen Marrin Award for Law Journal Writing in 2009.