Melanie

Commercial Litigation
Washington, D.C.

Melanie focuses her practice on appeals and complex commercial litigation.  She has extensive experience in both briefing and arguing appellate matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals and all of the lower New York appellate courts, as well as both analyzing and briefing a wide variety of legal issues in litigation matters in federal and state courts throughout the country. Melanie graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1991.  She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1994 and was editor of Harvard Law Review.  After law school, Melanie completed a clerkship with then-Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Read More