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Melissa is a Dorsey Partner and former Chair of Dorsey’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. While she has deep relationships with clients of all types, she has particular expertise litigating disputes and providing advice to clients in the financial services, healthcare, food & agriculture and energy sectors. She is “an experienced, knowledgeable practitioner who consistently delivers high-quality work,” reports Chambers U.S.A. in its most recent rankings of the top lawyers in America.

Melissa’s employment litigation practice includes class actions, collective actions, multi-plaintiff actions and single plaintiff cases nationwide in federal and state courts and agencies. She regularly handles arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), where she has a history of delivering successful results.

Melissa counsels employers on a full range of issues including performance management, selection and termination. Her decades of experience in these matters makes her a go-to partner and a trusted advisor for clients. (Her sense of humor doesn’t hurt either.)

Melissa is known as a fierce advocate for diversity in the business community. Knowing that sponsorship is vital to advance the careers of women and minority attorneys, she advocates stridently on their behalf. Her awareness that diverse teams deliver the best results for clients accounts for the highly diverse teams she assembles for the matters she handles.

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