Melinda S. Kollross Named to Prestigious DRI Amicus Committee
Clausen Miller announced today that Shareholder Melinda S. Kollross was named a member of the prestigious Amicus Committee within the DRI Center for Law and Public Policy.
The elite committee files briefs in select cases that present issues of extraordinary importance to civil litigation defense lawyers, their clients and the civil justice system. The committee participates in U.S. Supreme Court matters at the certiorari or merits stages and occasionally in appeals at the federal level.
Melinda will serve on the Amicus Committee through October 2025 in support of DRI’s core values of education, justice, balance, economics, professionalism and diversity.
Melinda is an AV-rated Preeminent shareholder and Chair of Clausen’s Appellate & Trial Monitoring Practice Group, handling post-trial and appellate litigation for savvy clients nationwide. Licensed in Illinois and New York, she has litigated more than 200 appeals in state and federal reviewing courts, including those in Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho and Washington, as well as participation in three appeals before the United States Supreme Court.
Melinda S. Kollross