C. Melissa Ewing
Associate | Atlanta Officemewing@phrd.com
T: (404) 420-5576
F: (678) 533-7749
F: (678) 533-7749
Practice Group
Services
- Real Estate Litigation
- Shareholder and Board of Directors Disputes and Counseling
- Derivative Litigation
- Banking, Insurance and Financial Services Litigation
- Securities Litigation, Arbitration and Counseling
- Business Torts and Unfair Competition
- Commercial and Contract Disputes
- Complex Civil Litigation and Class Actions
Education
- University of Georgia - (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998) Phi Beta Kappa
- University of Georgia School of Law - (J.D., cum laude, 2001) Member of Editorial Board, Georgia Law Review
Admitted to Practice
- Georgia
About Melissa
Melissa is an associate in the firm's Litigation Practice Group. She represents clients in state and federal courts in a variety of commercial litigation matters, including business torts, securities, commercial paper, banking fraud, contract disputes, real estate, and other complex business litigation. Melissa also has experience representing clients in arbitrations before the NASD and AAA and in mediations and other types of ADR processes.
Melissa has significant experience defending financial institutions in disputes involving a variety of legal issues including the Uniform Commercial Code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, claims pursuant to various state and federal consumer banking, credit, and lending statutes, and breach of contract and other common law breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conversion, negligence, defamation, slander and various other statutory and common law causes of action.
Melissa has significant experience defending financial institutions in disputes involving a variety of legal issues including the Uniform Commercial Code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, claims pursuant to various state and federal consumer banking, credit, and lending statutes, and breach of contract and other common law breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conversion, negligence, defamation, slander and various other statutory and common law causes of action.
Professional and Civic Involvement
- Board of Directors for VSA Arts of Georgia (2005 - 2008), Advisory Board (2008 - present), Chairman of VSA Arts of Georgia's annual Gala fundraiser for 2007
- Alliance Francaise of Atlanta
- Atanta Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; Young Lawyers Division
- Participant in Women on Board, Atlanta Women's Foundation
- State Bar of Georgia
Honors
- Blue Key Honor Society
Representative Engagements
- Represented national banking associations and other financial institutions in UCC matters involving check fraud and forgeries, Fair Credit Reporting Act issues, conversion, wrongful foreclosure, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, libel, slander, defamation, discriminatory lending, and wrongful death actions for alleged negligent security.
- Represented directors of an electric membership cooperative in state court derivative litigation.
- Represented former Chairman and CEO of a public company in securities fraud class action and SEC enforcement action arising out of alleged fraud and accounting restatement.
- Represented various securities broker/dealers in arbitrations filed by investors to recover investment losses.