Andreas J. Meyer is the founder of AJM Institutional Counsel and Strategy, an advisory practice providing synthesized, anticipatory counsel to colleges, universities, health systems, and related institutions operating under heightened regulatory, political, and public scrutiny.
Meyer advises presidents, chief executives, general counsel, boards of trustees, and senior leadership on matters at the intersection of federal policy, civil rights enforcement, national security regulation, and institutional governance. His work focuses on helping leadership navigate decisions where legal exposure, political dynamics, and organizational mission converge — reading those dimensions simultaneously rather than in sequence, and surfacing the questions that domain-specific advice alone will not reach.
Meyer began his legal career in the corporate practice group of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP before moving into senior in-house roles at the University of Southern California and Chapman University, where he served as Associate General Counsel.
Through his firm, Meyer serves as Special Counsel to the executive leadership of the University of Southern California, where his work addresses federal oversight, research security, civil rights enforcement, and governance issues affecting one of the nation’s largest research universities. He also serves as Special Counsel for Strategic Integration for USC’s planning related to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, coordinating the legal and strategic architecture of the university’s participation as operator of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Olympic Media Village.
Meyer also serves as Outside General Counsel and Senior Strategic Advisor to Pitzer College, providing integrated legal counsel to the college’s leadership and board while coordinating specialized outside counsel across the institution’s legal portfolio. His firm also advises Cottage Health, the leading regional academic health system serving California’s Central Coast, on corporate governance and regulatory strategy.
Meyer has held leadership roles in major civic and nonprofit institutions. He previously served as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the OC Fair & Event Center following appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown and as President of the Board of Equality California. He is the founder and President Emeritus of the Orange County Lavender Bar Association.
In 2025, Meyer and his husband established the Loren and Andreas Meyer Pastoral Care Fund at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Foundation to strengthen hospital chaplaincy services and expand patient awareness of confidential pastoral counseling available to individuals and families facing medical crisis. The fund supports patient education about pastoral care and provides comfort resources — regardless of faith tradition or belief — during life’s most difficult moments.
Meyer 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., magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California.