JULIA B. MEISTER is a partner in Taft's Litigation, Health and Life Sciences, and Private Client practice groups and heads the firm's Cincinnati Estates Trusts and Fiduciary Litigation practice. She counsels clients and represents them in commercial and estate, trust and fiduciary matters before courts, administrative tribunals, and arbitrators, and in professional ethics and discipline matters.  Julia advises clients on a variety of health care issues including privacy, statutory compliance, and decision making by health care surrogates.  In addition, she represents health care clients in disciplinary proceedings and investigations before licensing boards and professional societies.

Julia is recognized in Best Lawyers in America in two practice areas: Commercial Litigation and Estates and Trusts, and has a peer rating of "AV" in Martindale-Hubbell. She is an appointed member of the Ohio State Bar Association's Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section Council and its Jury Instructions Committee on Wills.

Julia graduated with honors from Xavier University and the Notre Dame Law School. She served as an editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy and was awarded the A. Harold Weber award for Excellence in Legal Writing. She has worked in administration at the Notre Dame Law School and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton Law School. Julia was named one of the Cincinnati Business Courier's Forty Under Forty emerging leaders and has been recognized in multiple years by Cincinnati Magazine as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and by the YWCA Academy of Career Women of Achievement as a Rising Star. She is active in several legal and community organizations and currently serves as a board trustee for the Cincinnati Opera Association, an officer on the board of trustees for the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, and an officer of the Cincinnati Area Senior Services board of trustees.