Meredith LeConey

About

Lapis Legal is a boutique law firm built on in-house experience and exclusively for life sciences. We work with pharmaceutical, biopharma, biotech, medtech and medical device companies, and the innovators and technology partners that serve them. Our clients range from pre-commercial startups navigating their first launch to established commercial teams that need senior legal support that integrates and adds judgment, not just hours, without adding headcount. What we bring is the kind of judgment that only comes from having been in the room when the stakes were high. More than a dozen product and indication launches. Clear recommendations you can act on. And we move at the pace of your business. This is not outside counsel that advises from a distance. This is a business-enabling legal partnership that’s built around your business, not the other way around. Founded in 2023 after almost 15 years as senior and executive in-house counsel at GSK and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, with 20+ years of total legal practice. Focus areas include FDA regulatory strategy and compliance, promotional and advertising compliance, commercialization and launch readiness, healthcare fraud and abuse (AKS/FCA), compliance program design, internal investigations, and regulatory risk strategy.

Practice Areas

Services

• Fractional General Counsel

  This is for the pre-commercial or early commercial companies that don't yet have an established in-house legal team. The science is there. The commercial path is coming into focus. The legal and compliance infrastructure is not. You need someone who's done this before. At the table to help you make informed decisions, building the infrastructure alongside you, and bringing executive-level legal leadership to a company not yet ready for a full-time GC.
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• Fractional Embedded Legal Counsel

  This is for the legal leader with an excellent legal team. They're just stretched. You need someone who can step inside seamlessly as an extension of the team: inside your systems, inside your meetings, inside your MLR process, inside your contracts process. Immediately useful without a learning curve, not just a warm body burning your hours.
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• Fractional Launch Surge Support

  This is for the company approaching a commercial launch, whether it's your first or your fifteenth. The timeline is compressed, the pressure is real, and legal cannot be the bottleneck. We embed with your team for the duration, handling promotional review, MLR support, launch readiness, and AKS counseling on commercial tactics. We help legal keep pace with the launch, not the other way around.
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Work

• 
  VP & Associate General Counsel

  Jazz Pharmaceuticals

  May 2015 - Dec 2022
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  Senior Counsel

  GSK

  Mar 2008 - Apr 2015

Education

• Seton Hall University School of Law
  J.D.