Melanie Black Dubis

Practice Areas

Litigation

Antitrust & Trade Regulation

Professional Negligence Defense

Intellectual Property Litigation

Class Action Defense

Trade Secrets

PFAS & Emerging Compounds

Appellate

Career

Melanie Dubis chairs Parker Poe's Litigation Department. She handles complex patent, securities, and other business disputes at the trial and appellate level for clients in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, insurance, financial services, energy, education, and technology industries.

She has experience in North Carolina state and federal courts (including the state Supreme Court and Business Court), the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, and Federal Circuits, and in arbitration proceedings.

Along with other Parker Poe colleagues, Melanie currently serves as national coordinating counsel for two defendant chemical manufacturing companies in multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving over 16,000 separate water provider and personal injury lawsuits and multiple putative class actions. The MDL action is pending in federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, and involves claims under state law in jurisdictions throughout the United States.

Melanie has also served as national defense counsel in class action lawsuits involving insurance regulations in multiple federal jurisdictions, represented generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act, and defended clients in false advertising and unfair competition claims filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She represents corporations and their boards of directors in derivative actions as well.

She appreciates that her clients benefit from doing business in a thriving business region with a high quality of life, and she plays an active role in keeping the Raleigh-Durham area at the top of the “best of” lists through service on numerous boards and committees.

Education