Melanie Ng Email and Phone Number

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, and interned at the Human Rights Clinic. Her clinical work was published in the Cardozo Law Review, and she also provided research assistance to Professor Campos. Melanie attended Miami Law on full scholarship, and she was active in the First-Generation Law Association.Melanie graduated 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 Gamecock Spanish Club. 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 letterwinner. She continues to run competitively.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, elementary lesson planing, international marketing, and volunteer recruitment. Melanie speaks Spanish proficiently.