Melissa is a partner in the Litigation Department. Melissa focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, class actions, and business tort disputes, as well as conducting internal investigations. Over the last twenty years, she has been involved a number of high profile matters, including high stakes trial teams involving major technology companies. For example, she represented Uber in Waymo v. Uber, which was a hotly contested trade secrets case regarding the future of self-driving cars, as well as in Malden v. Uber, where she was part of the team that secured a complete victory on behalf of Uber against plaintiffs asserting unfair competition claims and seeking over $750 million in damages. She also represented Qualcomm in Qualcomm v. Arm, where Arm Ltd., a UK-based semiconductor and software design company owned by SoftBank, brought suit over a technology license agreement with Qualcomm subsidiary NUVIA. Paul, Weiss won a decisive jury verdict after a closely watched four day trial – there, the jury found that Qualcomm did not breach the terms of NUVIA’s chip architecture licensing agreement with Arm and that its chips were properly licensed under Qualcomm’s own license with Arm.

She has also represented many other financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies over the course of her career, including one in a month-long trial in California state court involving alleged contractual breaches. In addition, she has represented a number of clients in confidential arbitrations, and secured favorable arbitrable awards.

Melissa is also committed to pro bono work. She currently serves on the Board of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program, and has previously served on the boards of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and Gaylaw. She has also taken on a number of pro bono cases involving disability rights and housing issues.

She was recognized by The National Law Journal in 2015 as one of the DC area’s top 40 lawyers under 40, and has been featured in articles published in the ABA Journal and The American Lawyer.