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IGNATIUS JOHN MELITO -  Member

 E-mail: ijm@melitoadolfsen.com

Born Brooklyn, New York, May 27, 1951; admitted to bar, 1977, New York.

Education:  Fordham University (B.A., cum laude, 1972; J.D. cum laude, 1976).  Managing Editor, Fordham Law Review, 1975-1976. 

Member:  New York State Bar Association; Defense Research Institute; New York County Lawyers Association.

 

 

   
 

 

     
IGNATIUS JOHN MELITO  is widely recognized on a nationwide basis as an appellate lawyer who has argued hundreds of appeals.  While he concentrates on work in New York, he has also argued appeals as far away as the Ninth Circuit in California, the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, and the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.  Mr. Melito also specializes in complex insurance matters, resolving disputes in places as far away as the Philippines.  He regularly handles insurance coverage litigation and is sought after for insurance coverage opinions on a wide range of general liability topics such as advertising injury coverage, contractual liability, owners and contractors coverage, etc. as well as various other types of coverages.