Attorneys

Carol A. Melnick
cmelnick@jaspanllp.com

Carol A. Melnick is a partner in the firm's Education and Municipal Law Practice Groups, where she handles a wide range of matters as general and labor counsel for public school districts, public libraries and other municipal entities. Ms. Melnick's general counsel background includes policy development, Freedom of Information Law and Open Meetings Law matters, election issues, fiscal management, administrative-level hearings regarding special education matters, student discipline, residency issues, and appeals to the Commissioner of Education and the State Review Officer. In addition, Ms. Melnick litigates special education matters in both State and Federal Courts. Her Labor Law experience includes collective bargaining, contract administration, grievance arbitration, administrative-level hearings regarding employee discipline, practice before the Public Employment Relations Board, practice before the State Division of Human Rights, and counseling on various employment-related matters under the New York State Labor Laws, Fair Labor Standards Act, Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Executive/Human Rights Laws and Title VII. Ms. Melnick frequently lectures on issues relating to special education.

Ms. Melnick received her Juris Doctor degree in 1993 from Brooklyn Law School. She is admitted to practice law in the courts of the State of New York and New Jersey and in the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. Ms. Melnick is an active member of the Nassau and New York State Bar Associations, and their respective Education, Labor and Employment and Municipal Law Sections.

B.A., University of Kentucky - 1985 J.D., Brooklyn Law School - 1993

New York New Jersey