Meyer G. Koplow ’72, P’02, P’05
Doctor of Laws
Attorney Meyer G. Koplow ’72, P’02, P’05, is of counsel in the litigation practice of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a law firm in New York City.
Recognized for his expertise in the resolution of complicated and contentious legal and business issues, he was a principal negotiator of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, which resolved issues between the major tobacco companies and 46 U.S. states, five U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Koplow has also played a key role in major class-action asbestos and disabled-persons settlements and in the resolution of claims against mortgage lenders after the 2008-09 financial crisis.
After graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis, Koplow earned a JD from New York University School of Law, where he served as executive editor and notes and comment editor at the New York University Law Review.
Koplow has devoted years of service to Brandeis. From 2006-21, he was a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, presiding as chair during the last four years of his tenure. He also chaired the board’s budget and finance committee and the nominating and governance committee.
He is a board member and is active in Our Generation Speaks, a program housed at the Heller School, which annually brings 30 Israeli and Palestinian fellows to Brandeis to create startups together, engage in difficult conversations that result in lasting bonds between them and foster leadership skills to drive change in the Middle East. He serves on the board of Encounter, an educational organization that seeks to foster courageous Jewish communal leadership on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also serves as president of the International Beit Din, facilitating religious divorces for wives whose husbands refuse to free them to remarry.