Melissa Maye
Education:
Georgia State University College of Law, Juris Doctor, 1991
- First Place, 1-L Moot Court Competition (Appellate Advocacy)
- Moot Court Board Member
- Vice President of Appellate Advocacy
- American Jurisprudence Award Recipient
Regis University, B.S. Business Administration/Economics
Memberships:
- State Bar of Texas
- Nacogdoches Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel
Since joining Fairchild, Price, Haley & Smith LLP in 2021, Melissa has been actively engaged in all aspects of civil litigation, including automobile/trucking litigation, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, personal injury, oil and gas, and general insurance defense. Melissa’s practice also includes business consulting, including profit and not-for-profit formation and guidance, partnership dissolution, contracts, leases, employment law, estate planning, probate, real estate and other civil matters. Before joining the firm, Melissa was a solo practitioner handling commercial and residential real estate transactions, estate planning, probate and small business consulting. Melissa also has extensive criminal appellate experience, having served as an Assistant Defender for the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. Melissa also served as an adjunct professor at a local community college, teaching “The Legal Environment of Business.”
Melissa is the author of numerous articles, including “When They Pry It From My Cold Dead Hand – Transferring Firearms Following the Death or Disability of an Illinois Resident,” “Puppy Prohibition – An Economic Primer Explaining Why Chicago’s Puppy Mill Ban Ordinance Was Doomed to Fail,” and “The HIPAA Policies & Procedures Manual” and she soon will have published a chapter on ethics concerns in probate matters in a Probate Manual to be published by the Illinois State Bar Association.