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Marina Melikyan - Los Angeles, CA
10880 Wilshire BoulevardSuite 1015 Los Angeles, CA 90024
BDG Law Group
Los Angeles Business Litigation Lawyer
Overview
Marina joined BDG in December 2021 as an associate attorney. She received her law degree from Southwestern Law School in May 2021 and is admitted to practice law before all California state courts. Marina’s practice primarily focuses on representing public entities, including transportation agencies, in eminent domain matters. She also has experience in representing employers, including public entities and businesses, in employment litigation matters. While in law school, she served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Dean Hansell, with whom she co-authored an article published in the Daily Journal. She also externed for two business litigation firms in the Los Angeles area. Marina received the CALI Award in Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills, and served as a Dean's Merit Scholar, Dean's Fellow, and Lead Articles Editor for the Southwestern Law Review. She graduated summa cum laude from CSUN in 2018 with a degree in political science. Marina is also a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Armenian Bar Association.
About Marina Melikyan
Languages
- Armenian
Practice Areas
- Business Litigation
- Business Transactions
- Complex/Class Actions
- Construction Law
- Eminent Domain
- Employment Law
- Environmental, Land Use And Development
- Estate Planning & Probate
- Inverse Condemnation
- Real Estate Litigation
- Real Estate Transactions
Qualifications
Education
- Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, May, 2021
Juris Doctor
Honors: Southwestern Law Review, Lead Articles Editor (Bluebook Award winner
Honors: CALI Excellence for the Future Award (highest grade in course): Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills I
Honors: Witkin Award for Academic Excellence: Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiating
Honors: Dean’s Merit Scholar; Dean’s Fellow; Wildman/Schumacher Merit Scholarship - California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, May, 2018
Bachelor of Arts
Honors: summa cum laude
Honors: Dean’s List (all six semesters)
Honors: Judicial Intern to the Honorable Shirley K. Watkins, Los Angeles Superior Court, January 2018 – May 2018
Honors: Lonnie S. Turner Memorial Scholarship Award for Outstanding Junior in Political Science, Spring 2017
Honors: Research Assistant to Professor Leigh Bradberry, 2017 – 2018
Major: Political Science
Fees
Accepts Credit Cards
Articles
Published Works
- Hon. Dean Hansell & Marina Melikyan, Issuing a Gun Violence Restraining Order in California, DAILY JOURNAL (August 2019)
Office Information
Address
10880 Wilshire BoulevardSuite 1015 Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone
Fax
- 310-474-0931
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