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Melanie E. Dunn, Associate

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E-Mail: mdunn@siegeloconnor.com

Melanie E. Dunn is an associate in the Hartford office of Siegel, O’Connor, O’Donnell & Beck, P.C., where she represents boards of education with an emphasis on special education and other legal issues pertaining to students. Ms. Dunn also represents public and private sector clients in labor and employment matters before state and federal courts and administrative agencies.

Practice Areas:

Employment Law/Litigation, Labor Relations Law and Prevention Practices, Government Regulation Compliance, Wage and Hour Law, Education Law

Admitted to Practice

Connecticut, 2007

Massachusetts, 2004

New Jersey, 2005

U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, 2007

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2005

Education

Bard College, B.A., 2001

University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., May 2004

Served as Managing Editor, Connecticut Journal of International Law


 

Professional Activities

Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, School Attorneys Council

Connecticut Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Director of Continuing Legal Education

Connecticut Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, Education Law Committee, Co-Chair, 2008-2009

Connecticut Bar Association, Education Law Committee

Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity

Community Activities

Opportunity House (Hamden, Connecticut), Board Member, 2008-2011

 

Author and Lecturer

"School Spending Issues Create Tension for Attorneys," Frederick L. Dorsey and Melanie E. Dunn, Connecticut Law Tribune, August 9, 2010, Special Section: Municipal & Educational Law, p.16.

Reproductive Rights in Afghanistan: Considerations of Abortion Regulation in Light of the Afghan Reconstruction Process, 18 Connecticut Journal of International Law 595 (Spring 2003).