Melanie G. Ng

Melanie G. Ng, Esq., is a member of Watstein Terepka LLP’s complex commercial litigation and consumer class action defense team. She works on a wide variety of commercial litigation matters and defends companies against putative class actions involving a variety of state and federal statutes, including the TCPA, FDCPA, FCRA, state privacy statutes, state unfair competition statutes, and other state consumer statutes.

Though Melanie helps clients in all stages of litigation, from case assessment through trial and appeals, she also enjoys working with clients to create and implement custom policies and procedures to help avoid litigation altogether. Melanie’s compliance work includes, for example, helping companies implement consumer arbitration programs and procedures that comply with telecommunications, consumer privacy, and other regulations.

Prior to joining WT, Melanie worked in the Miami office of an international law firm. In that role, Melanie litigated complex civil cases to dismissal or minimal settlement, and she was involved in all phases of litigation, obtaining excellent results for her clients along the way.

Melanie attended law school at the University of Miami School of Law, where she served on the International & Comparative Law Review, graduated cum laude, worked as a Dean’s Fellow, volunteered as a student-manager for the distance track team, and interned as a student-attorney at the Human Rights Clinic. Her clinical work was published in the Cardozo Law Review, and she also provided research assistance to Professor Sergio Campos. Melanie attended Miami Law on full scholarship, and she was active in the First-Generation Law Association, Collegiate Athlete Legal Society, and Miami Law Women.

Melanie received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina Honors College, magna cum laude, with three majors: International Business, Economics, and Spanish. She minored in Latin American Studies and served as president of Sigma Delta Pi honor society and the Gamecock Spanish Club. And she successfully defended an undergraduate thesis—entirely in Spanish—that analyzed the mathematical accuracy of 16th-century accounts of Incan relay messengers.  Melanie also ran cross-country and track and was a four-time varsity letter winner. She continues to run competitively in her free time.

Before law school, Melanie volunteered with Seeds of Hope, a Perú-based non-profit organization that provides free tutoring and educational resources to underprivileged children in the Peruvian highlands. In her role as international coordinator, Melanie was responsible for fundraising, day-to-day management, international marketing, and volunteer recruitment. And she served as the lead instructor for elementary students. Melanie speaks Spanish proficiently.