Types of cases handled in facilitation

Melanie has experience working at one of Michigan's preeminent plaintiff personal injury law firms and assisting plaintiff's in getting compensation for their injuries. She also has more than 25 years combined experience working as a partner at an insurance defense firm and as the managing attorney of an international insurer's house counsel. Melanie understands the needs of adjusters and claims representatives. She is familiar with every type of personal injury case.

Melanie has  decades of experience working on disputes of significant value and involving many layers of insurance coverage. Melanie has experience with ladders of coverages, exclusions, deductibles, self insurance, and other similar issues. She has handled trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, explosions, construction site injuries, construction defects, wrongful deaths, burn cases and paralysis cases.

Melanie is very familiar with expert analysis of issues. She began her career defending physicians in medical malpractice disputes. Throughout her career, she has worked with expert physicians, economists, cause and origin fire specialists, engineers, safety experts, vocational specialists, product designers, construction experts, IP experts, engineers, chemical experts and many other areas of expertise.

Melanie has more than a decade of experience working with disputes related to business issues. She has litigated employment law disputes, contract disputes, supplier disputes, trade disputes, trade secret disputes and trademark disputes.

Melanie has experience in litigating trademark, trade secret, patent, and copyright matters. She has also engaged in considerable trademark prosecution and enforcement activities. She is comfortable mediating these issues. She also taught a design patent class at Cooley Law School, so she can address design patents as well.