Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP is pleased to welcome Mrinalini “Melanie” R. Jayashankar to the firm.

As a member of Wyatt’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution team in Memphis, Melanie Jayashankar will assist with counseling clients in a variety of matters regarding appellate practices, constitutional law and commercial litigation. Ms. Jayashankar will also be assisting Wyatt’s Labor & Employment and Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation teams by providing support in all types of employment law, trademark prosecution and insurance defense. Before joining Wyatt, Ms. Jayashankar owned her own firm for several years where she focused on small business legal consulting and in the areas of disability and personal injury. Ms. Jayashankar received her J.D. from the University of Georgia College of Law where she was the notes editor on the Journal of Intellectual Property. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Industrial Engineering.