Position: Member

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Website: www.dykema.com

Admitted: Minnesota, 1991

Law School: Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude 1991

College: Harvard Divinity School, M.T.S. 1991 Harvard University, A.B., cum laude 1986

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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation

Additional Information: Brian Melendez is the Office Managing Member of Dykema's Minneapolis office. In addition, he is a member of the Business Litigation Group. Mr. Melendez focuses his practice on consumer financial litigation and business litigation. Mr. Melendez has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies in contractual disputes ranging from defending claims for simple breach of contract and business torts to negotiating software contracts to prosecuting covenants not to compete. He has also litigated cases under many federal and state consumer protection laws, including the Consumer Credit Protection Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Fair Credit Billing Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Minnesota Prevention of Consumer Fraud Act. Throughout the past decade, Mr. Melendez has represented credit card issuers in more than two hundred cases, including seven nationwide class actions and three federal appeals; and has handled consumer-protection cases in courts in 40 states, including 29 federal district courts, 10 bankruptcy courts, and 19 state courts. Active in pro bono matters, Mr. Melendez has handled cases in the areas of consumer credit, consumer fraud and fair debt collection practices. Before joining Dykema, Mr. Melendez was a partner in an AmLaw 100 firm. Since 2004 Mr. Melendez has served as a Contributing Editor in the area of parliamentary law for Black's Law Dictionary. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell College of Law.