Melissa A. McCall
Melissa A. McCall
Senior Associate
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Melissa A. McCall focuses her practice on regulatory enforcement actions, internal investigations and complex securities litigation. She provides strategic counsel to clients in the technology, media, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and financial sectors before both federal and state regulators. She has also represented clients in shareholder class actions and consumer protection matters, including in matters related to large cyberattacks. Ms. McCall shares the firm’s commitment to pro bono service, and she helped to secure a California Court of Appeal ruling requiring family law judges who grant custody to a known abuser to provide an explanation for doing so. While in law school, she worked as a legal extern for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the Supreme Court of California, and she advised nonprofit clients on issues of law and policy as an advanced clinical student in the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic.
Ms. McCall is a PhD candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also an affiliated researcher in the Culture, Diversity, and Intergroup Relations Lab.
Recognition
- Named a Northern California Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in 2023
- Selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Commercial Litigation.
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Education
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JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2020
JSP/JD Support Award (full tuition); Miller Institute American Society for International Law Fellow, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award; Center for Race and Gender Research Grant; William K. Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellow; Jurisprudence and Social Policy Selznick Fellow -
BS, Political Science and Legal Studies, Portland State University, 2013
summa cum laude Departmental Honors, Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement
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California
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Credentials
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Education
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JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2020
JSP/JD Support Award (full tuition); Miller Institute American Society for International Law Fellow, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award; Center for Race and Gender Research Grant; William K. Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Student Research Fellow; Jurisprudence and Social Policy Selznick Fellow -
BS, Political Science and Legal Studies, Portland State University, 2013
summa cum laude Departmental Honors, Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement
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Admissions
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California
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