Andreas J. Meyer advises university, college, and healthcare leaders confronting matters where legal risk, political pressure, government oversight, and institutional mission intersect. His practice focuses on federal engagement, including investigations and enforcement as well as research security and competitiveness; new ventures; civil rights law; and other matters in which institutional reputation, funding, and legacies are at stake.
AJM Institutional Counsel and Strategy is a senior advisory practice built for institutions navigating challenges that do not fit neatly within a single legal specialty. Andreas works alongside in-house and outside counsel, helping executives and boards evaluate legal, regulatory, political, and operational considerations simultaneously rather than in isolation. Drawing on experience across corporate law, higher education, healthcare, governance, and public affairs, he translates specialized legal advice into options leaders can evaluate and act upon. Clients retain his judgment directly, and he coordinates the legal, regulatory, and government-relations teams that execute the resulting strategy.
Andreas serves as Special Counsel to the executive leadership of a leading private research university, advising on federal oversight, research security, and civil rights enforcement. He also provides strategic and legal guidance regarding that institution’s role as a venue host and operator for major international sporting events.
At one of the country’s distinctive liberal arts colleges, he serves as Outside General Counsel and Senior Strategic Advisor, counseling the president, senior executives, and board of trustees on governance, regulatory matters, and institutional strategy. He also advises a regional health system on governance and regulatory strategy.
Andreas began his career in the corporate practice of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher before serving as senior in-house counsel at the University of Southern California and Chapman University. He has been a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys since 2011.
His perspective is also informed by firsthand experience as an institutional leader and fiduciary. Following his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown, Andreas served as Board Vice Chair and Governance Committee Chair of the OC Fair & Event Center, a California government agency. He also served two terms as Board President of Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, overseeing its legislative and electoral strategy. In 2025, Andreas and his husband founded the Loren and Andreas Meyer Pastoral Care Fund at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Foundation to expand hospital chaplaincy services in their local community.
Andreas received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Clarence Darrow Scholar and contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review. He earned his B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California, which he attended as a first-generation college student. He lives in Hutchinson, Kansas, with his husband Loren and their three dogs.