Melissa was named an Interruptor on International Law by interruptrr.com. Melissa has joined a list of leading women in the field of international law who are interrupting an otherwise male-dominated profession by showcasing her expertise in the field of international family law. See the list of extraordinary international law interruptors here.
Melissa will present at the AAML’s annual Maryland-Virginia-D.C. retreat on April 15th, where she will speak about Golan v. Saada, the most recent Hague Abduction Convention case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022. The case was remanded, and has had some significant further proceedings. The case itself is still ongoing. Read more …
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For the second year in a row, Melissa was named a Top Lawyer by Washingtonian Magazine. Washingtonian “surveyed all of [its] past Top Lawyers, asking them to nominate those they consider to be the best among their peers. From there, [the magazine] conducted more of [its] own reporting and research” in order to select this …
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MK Family Law is honored to be included among the distinguished group of law firms that made the Best Lawyers Tier 1 ranking for 2023. “The 2023 rankings incorporate more than 12.2 million evaluations of more than 115,000 individual leading lawyers from more than 22,000 firms. More than 2,000 firms received a national ranking this …
Melissa has been appointed as the Co-Chair of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyer‘s International Law Committee. The AAML is a membership organization that requires the highest standards in practice and ethics for family lawyers throughout the United States. Membership requires an extensive application, recommendation, and examination process, followed by an invitation to join.
On October 18th, Melissa, a seasoned child’s attorney and author of the American Bar Association’s handbook on representing children in domestic and international cases, co-presented with James Netto of London, England for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts on the ins and outs of representing minor children in their parents’ international parental child abduction …
MK Family Law, PLLC was named among the 2023 Best Lawyers Law Firms in Washington, D.C. in the practice area of family law.
Melissa is honored to present to the Beverly Hills Bar Association on Thursday, October 13, 2022 on the topic of the Hague Child Abduction Convention. Melissa will run through the ins and outs of this treaty, including what it is, and what it is not.
Melissa was included in The Best Lawyers in America for 2023, released on August 18, 2022. “Best Lawyers awards are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America recognizes only the top 5.3% of elite lawyers in the nation across …
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Melissa has co-authored the Year-in-Review in International Family Law as part of a legal journal edited by the SMU Dedman School of Law since 2013. This annual publication summarizes the most salient and important legal updates in the field of international family law over the past calendar year. You can read the most recent article, …
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