Malissa Osei

Practice Areas

Malissa Osei concentrates her practice in commercial litigation and matrimonial matters. She has experience litigating complex contract disputes, negotiating pre-nuptial agreements, and litigating child custody and child support matters in New York’s Family and Supreme Courts. Malissa has been named to the National Black Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40, an invitation-only network of African American attorneys from each state who demonstrate superior leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile.

Malissa is a member of the National Urban League Young Professionals, a network of young professionals across the United States that works to eradicate social and economic inequalities through community service and volunteer initiatives. She is also involved with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the New York Women’s Bar Association, and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

Career

Among other honors, Malissa has previously been selected for the American Bar Association’s prestigious On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers award and has been named a Rising Star by the New York Law Journal, a Woman Worth Watching by Profiles in Diversity Journal, One to Watch by Best Lawyers, and a Rising Star by New York Super Lawyers.

Before joining KSTM, Malissa worked at Blank Rome in one of the nation’s largest matrimonial practices. Fluent in Twi, a dialect of Ghana, Malissa served as an intern for the Legal Resources Centre, a Ghana-based human rights NGO. During her internship, she successfully sought a presidential pardon for a death row inmate, developed an anti-human trafficking training manual for prosecutors, and facilitated a public forum on election disputes.

Malissa received her law degree from Cornell Law School, where she served as an articles editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, and her B.A. from Fordham University.