Luis Meléndez

Luis M. Meléndez is an Associate at Marquee Advocacy Group, where he advocates for employees facing illegal and unfair treatment in the workplace, including discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, and breach of employment contracts. He is a member in good standing of the Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. State Bars.

Before joining Marquee, Luis represented and advocated for both private and federal employees facing employment discrimination. He also served as a Staff Attorney at the Children's Law Center, advocating for the rights of D.C. families, and worked as an Assistant Consumer Advocate for the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office of Consumer Advocate, where he protected consumers' interests through complex litigation. Luis has dedicated his career to helping people and serving his community.

Luis graduated magna cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law. During his time at Temple, he was a Law & Public Policy Scholar, a Staff Editor for the Temple Law Review, and volunteered for the Transgender Name Change Project and the National Lawyers Guild Expungement Project. He also gained significant legal experience as an intern for the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the Mazzoni Center (an LGBTQ+ organization), the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and as a judicial intern at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Luis earned his Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, graduating summa cum laude from Universidad del Turabo, and is fluent in Spanish.

In his free time, Luis enjoys exploring the outdoors, hiking, and camping.