Melissa D. Wischerath - Buffalo, NY

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • State University of New York, Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York, 2011
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Fordham University, 2004
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Senior Partner

Classes and Seminars

• 34th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, How to Start and Run a Public Interest Law Practice, 2016
  
• 33rd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Reclaiming the Promise of Home Rule to Protect the Environment, 2015
  
• Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, “Earned Sick Leave, Preemption and the Powers of Local Government,” 2014
  
• CLE Access to Justice, CLE on the Federal District Court Pro Bono Panel, 2014
  
• 32nd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Food Systems and Environmental Law, 2014

Pro Bono Activities

• Advisory Board of Directors, Northwest Land Conservation Trust
• Board of Directors, Campaign for Greater Buffalo

Representative Cases

• S.G.W. V. EUGENE SCH. DIST.: Recovered an award of attorney fees on behalf of a prevailing party
• S.G.W., T.B., and M.B.W. v. Eugene School District: Won on appeal and defeated all cross appeals
• Long v. Gill et al: Civil rights; won by unanimous jury verdict in citizen’s favor. 42 U.S.C. 1983 Civil rights case under 4th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process violations

Bar Admissions

• Oregon, 2013
• New York, 2012
• U.S. District Court Western District of New York
• U.S. District Court District of Oregon
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Other Affiliations

• Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (Member)
• New York State Bar Association (Member)
• Bar Association of Erie County (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Oregon State Bar Association (Member)