Melissa M. Wetkowski

Loyola Marymount University
B.S. Biology
Magna Cum Laude

Southwestern Law School
J.D.
Editor of Southwestern Journal of International Law

Phi Alpha Delta
Alpha Sigma Nu

California State Bar
U.S. District Court, Central District
U.S. District Court, Southern District

Her practice focuses largely on the defense of professional liability matters. She specializes in defending health care providers and facilities in medical malpractice litigation, attorneys in legal malpractice litigation, and universities in general civil litigation matters.

Association of Southern California Defense Counsel

Legal:

Wetkowski, Melissa, A Ban On Gene Patenting: The Potential to Sabotage the United States’ Prosperity in Biotechnology in Light of International Patenting Policies, Southwestern Journal of International Law 15-1, 2010 [cited in Amicus Brief of American Intellectual Property Law Assn. supporting reversal of Assn. for Medical Pathology v. USPTO & Myriad & the Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation (S.D.N.Y. 2009) to be heard in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, pp. 9, 22]

Non-Legal:

Dennis L. Peterson, Karen B. Kubow, Maren J. Connolly, Laran R. Kaplan, Melissa M. Wetkowski, Wai Leong, Barret C. Phillips, Suzanne Edmands, Reproductive and Phylogenetic Divergence of Tidepool Copepod Populations Across a Narrow Geographical Boundary in Baja California, Journal of Biogeography, 2013

Ramirez, M. G., S. S. Eiman, and M. M. Wetkowski*, et al., Male Remating Success and the Frequency of Copulatory Plugs in the Green Lynx Spider Peucetia Viridans (Araneae, Oxyopidae), Psyche, 2010

Ramirez, M. G., S. S. Eiman, M. M. Wetkowski*, et al., Heterozygosity and Fitness in a California Population of the Labyrinth Spider Metepeira Ventura (Araneae, Araneidae), Invertebrate Biology, 2006

Leader/Staff, Wilderness Travel Course, Sierra Club (Angeles Chapter)