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Top Women Lawyers

May 11, 2011

Donna M. Melby

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Employment, complex commercial


Melby served as lead counsel for plaintiff/appellant Toyo Tire Holdings of the Americas Inc. in a particularly high-stakes complex international arbitration, taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, involving the heated dissolution of a business partnership.


She scored a victory with an injunction in the district court, and reaped another win in a precedent-setting favorable decision published by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just seven days before o...

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