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Melinda Meador, a Member in the Knoxville office, represents business clients in complex litigation involving banking, securities, antitrust, products liability, professional liability and contract disputes. Highlights of her practice:

Tried over 50 jury cases to verdict in state and federal courts.
Obtained summary judgments for international nuclear fuel corporation in complex contract disputes with multiple subcontractors, including a reversal and award of summary judgment on appeal to the Sixth Circuit.
Represented major financial institution in complex commercial litigation involving multi-million dollar real estate development.
Obtained verdict for director of company profit-sharing plan committee charged with ERISA violations.
Successfully defended national tobacco company in price discrimination litigation involving 30 plaintiffs.
Obtained jury verdict in favor of national farm equipment manufacturer in products liability case.
Defended national pharmaceutical company in multiple diet drug products liability cases resulting in settlement.
Successfully resolved professional liability litigation for banks located in New York, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Georgia.

Ms. Meador also provides business and commercial law advice and counseling to several local companies and financial institutions.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Meador worked in the Professional Liability Section of the FDIC/RTC investigating bank failures and litigating multi-million dollar claims involving directors and officers liability, accounting malpractice, and securities fraud. Ms. Meador spent three years at the agencies' headquarters in Washington, D.C., where, among other responsibilities, she was a member of the team that investigated the failure of Madison Guaranty and prepared the RTC's Whitewater Report to Congress.

Ms. Meador is a 1982 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. Following a judicial clerkship with Justice Murry B. Cohen, First District, Texas Court of Appeals, she gained extensive trial experience as an assistant district attorney in Houston.

Ms. Meador served on the Knoxville Bar Association's Board of Governors from 2003-2006, and currently co-chairs the KBA's Judiciary Committee. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she teaches advanced trial practice, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council and the Legal Clinic Advisory Board. She has been an adult volunteer in various youth organizations and serves on several local and state non-profit boards. She is in the 2008 class of Leadership Knoxville and is a member of the Hamilton Burnett Inn of Court and the Executive Women's Association of Knoxville.