Melody Lynch divides her work among the Labor and Employment, Commercial Litigation, eDiscovery, and Sports and Entertainment practices. She has worked on matters involving Title VII, Fair Labor Standards Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, whistleblower laws and disputes over employment contracts, non-competition agreements, and non-disclosure agreements. Melody represents employers before state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, and the Department of Labor.
Melody also regularly represents clients in complex business and real estate disputes, including representation of large luxury hotels with regard to various contract and collection matters.
Melody is a founding member of the firm's eDiscovery practice and is a frequent author and lecturer on the topics of eDiscovery, workplace privacy, and technology. She litigates complex cases involving voluminous amounts of electronically stored information and manages document preservation, collection and production effort including drafting the litigation hold letter, designing the review platform, and through the conclusion of trial. In addition, Melody assists clients in preparing document retention and destruction policies in advance of litigation.
In the sports law arena, Melody has handled contract disputes and family law cases involving athletes in the National Basketball Association, National Football League and Major League Baseball.
