Melissa D. Wischerath

Melissa D. Wischerath represents clients who have suffered a personal injury. She focuses her practice on recovering damages for clients in all manner of personal injury cases, including: Construction Accidents Workplace Injuries Automobile Accidents Defective Products/Products Liability Slip and Fall Accidents Discrimination Civil Rights Toxic Torts Ms. Wischerath has experience working with the disenfranchised and was recognized in Oregon for her pro bono work, as well as her service to and compassion for clients from all walks of life. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Melissa D. Wischerath included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Expert Network Distinguished Lawyer, 2017 - Present Honorable James M. Burns Federal Practice Award, 2016 - Present Lawyer of Distinction, 2018 - Present Oregon State Bar Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2013 - 2015 Other Sources of Feedback About Melissa D. Wischerath Included on the 2025Upstate New York Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list 2022 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list 2021 Oregon Super Lawyers list 2020 Oregon Super Lawyers list 2019 Oregon Super Lawyers list 2018 Oregon Super Lawyers list

• Senior Partner

• 34th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, How to Start and Run a Public Interest Law Practice, 2016
• 33rd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Reclaiming the Promise of Home Rule to Protect the Environment, 2015
• Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, “Earned Sick Leave, Preemption and the Powers of Local Government,” 2014
• CLE Access to Justice, CLE on the Federal District Court Pro Bono Panel, 2014
• 32nd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Food Systems and Environmental Law, 2014

• S.G.W. V. EUGENE SCH. DIST.: Recovered an award of attorney fees on behalf of a prevailing party
• S.G.W., T.B., and M.B.W. v. Eugene School District: Won on appeal and defeated all cross appeals
• Long v. Gill et al: Civil rights; won by unanimous jury verdict in citizen’s favor. 42 U.S.C. 1983 Civil rights case under 4th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process violations

• Advisory Board of Directors, Northwest Land Conservation Trust
• Board of Directors, Campaign for Greater Buffalo

• Oregon, 2013
• New York, 2012
• U.S. District Court Western District of New York
• U.S. District Court District of Oregon
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

• Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (Member)
• New York State Bar Association (Member)
• Bar Association of Erie County (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Oregon State Bar Association (Member)