Buster Melvin

Practice Areas

• Labor & Employment

• Higher Education

Career

Buster serves as co-leader of Barclay Damon's Higher Education Team. He concentrates his practice on labor and employment matters and has extensive experience representing clients in state and federal court at the trial and appellate levels. He also represents clients before the NYS Division of Human Rights, the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Public Employment Relations Board, the National Relations Labor Board, and in labor arbitration hearings.

Buster routinely lectures and provides training sessions for clients on a wide array of labor and employment issues. He also serves as the chair of Barclay Damon’s Associates Committee.

Professional Memberships

• Federal Court Bar Association for the Northern District of New York, Member

• New York State Bar Association, Member

• Onondaga County Bar Association, Member

• National Association of College and University Attorneys, Member

Publications

• Barclay Damon LLP, “Colleges and Universities Targeted by Serial Plaintiff Leshawn Young in Recent Wave of Website Accessibility Lawsuits”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “NYS Appellate Court Sustains College's Tenure Terminations”

• Barclay Damon LLP, “Housing Discrimination: Pro Se Plaintiff Robert W. Johnson Targeting Hotels, Motels in Recent Flurry of Federal Lawsuits”

Personal

• L'Arche Syracuse, Board Member

• Vera House Foundation, Inc. and Vera House Foundation, Former Board Member and Trustee

• St. Lucy's Church, Former Parish Council President

• Catholic Lawyers Guild, Former President

• McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Site, Former Board Member