Melanie Paul, Esq.

Of Counsel, Jackson Lewis, P.C.

Melanie L. Paul is Of Counsel in the Atlanta, Georgia office of Jackson Lewis P.C.  Her practice focuses on occupational safety and health and wage and hour issues.  Her clients benefit from her unique inside
experience as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for more than a decade. 
During Paul’s time with the DOL, she regularly appeared at hearings and trials before federal administrative tribunals and federal district courts throughout the southeastern United States in matters of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) law, Mine Safety and Health (MSHA) law, whistleblower and federal wage and hour matters.  She also defended agency management against allegations of employment discrimination and prohibited personnel practices before the EEOC and the MSPB.  While at the DOL, she was the Criminal OSHA Coordinator for the southeastern region and worked with U.S. Department of Justice to have Occupational Safety and Health cases criminally prosecuted. 
Prior to working at the DOL, Paul gained invaluable trial experience as an Assistant District Attorney in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia where she tried felony criminal jury cases.  She also was a law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda T. Walker for the U.S. District Court in the
Northern District of Georgia, where she worked on predominantly employment discrimination cases.