Melanie Ng

Full Profile

Melanie Ng advises clients on complex civil litigation matters with a focus on products liability, general liability, and catastrophic personal injury cases. Her legal experience includes her prior work as a maritime law clerk and civil procedure research assistant.

Melanie ran cross-country and track at the University of South Carolina and was a four-time varsity letter-winner for the Gamecocks. She continues to run competitively in her free time.

Before matriculating to law school, Melanie volunteered with Seeds of Hope, a Perú-based non-profit organization that provides free tutoring to underprivileged school children in the Peruvian highlands. Melanie also speaks Spanish proficiently.

Admissions

• Florida
• North Carolina
• US District Courts for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida

Education

• J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law, 2021. Student-Attorney, Human Rights Clinic. International & Comparative Law Review. Civil Procedure Dean’s Fellow and Research Assistant. Paul & Terrance Dee Memorial Endowed Scholarship and Dean’s Merit Scholarship. First Generation Law Association, Collegiate Athlete Legal Society, and Miami Law Women.
• B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, International Business and Economics, University of South Carolina Honors College, Darla Moore School of Business, 2017. International Business Student Advisory Committee. Beta Gamma Sigma.

• B.A., magna cum laude, Spanish, University of South Carolina Honors College, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017. President of Sigma Delta Pi and Gamecock Spanish Club. 

• Studied abroad, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios in Santiago de Chile, 2016
• Studied abroad, Universidad de Granada, Centro de Lenguas Modernas in Andalucía, Spain, 2015

Experience

• Assisted with partial summary judgment for cruise line in trip-and-fall case.
•  Assisted with dismissal of cruise line subsidiary for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Publications

• Co-author, “Challenging Domestic Injustice Through International Human Rights Advocacy: Addressing Homelessness in The United States,” Cardozo Law Review, vol. 42, 2021