About Christianna McCausland

On the Side of the Underdog

In a modest corner office in a corporate park in suburban Pasadena, where family photographs line the bookshelves and a framed child’s painting of a sailboat hangs on the wall, Kathleen Howard Meredith sits amidst overflowing case files stacked on the floor. With her auburn hair, large blue eyes and pleasant demeanor, Meredith looks much younger than her 51 years—more like a college student cramming for mid-term exams than an aggressive litigator. Yet the piles of folders are …