Awards and Recognitions
Melissa D. Wischerath represents clients who have suffered a personal injury. She focuses her practice on recovering damages for clients in all manner of personal injury cases, including:
- Construction Accidents
- Workplace Injuries
- Automobile Accidents
- Defective Products/Products Liability
- Slip and Fall Accidents
- Discrimination
- Civil Rights
- Toxic Torts
Ms. Wischerath has experience working with the disenfranchised and was recognized in Oregon for her pro bono work, as well as her service to and compassion for clients from all walks of life.
Bar and Court Admissions
- Oregon, 2013
- New York, 2012
- United States District Court, Western District of New York
- United States District Court, Oregon
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Education
- State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., 2011
- Fordham University, B.A., 2004
Professional Activities
- Member, 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
Speaking Engagements
- 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
Community Involvement
- Advisory Board of Directors, Northwest Land Conservation Trust
- Board of Directors, Campaign for Greater Buffalo
In the News
- Federal judge orders Eugene School District to compensate for denying autistic teenager proper evaluation, education, The Register-Guard
- County ordered to pay $25,418, The Register-Guard
