Overview
 

Melanie Frederic had the privilege of clerking for the Honorable Barry W. Ashe on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.  She graduated magna cum laude from Tulane Law School in 2025.  At Tulane, she served as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor of Volume 99 of the Tulane Law Review, as a Student Attorney in the Federal Practice and Civil Rights Clinic, on the boards for the Tulane Civil Law Society and the Energy and Environmental Law Society, and as a senior fellow for the first-year legal research and writing course.  Ms. Frederic graduated from Louisiana State University, magna cum laude in 2021, earning a B.S. in Biological Sciences.  Her areas of practice include commercial litigation and civil appeals. 

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Professional Affiliations

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• Member, Federal Bar Association

• Member, Louisiana State Bar Association

• Member, Tulane Law Review Alumni Association

• Junior Honorary Member, Louisiana State Law Institute​​​

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Admissions

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• Louisiana (2025)

• United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (2025)

• United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (2025)

• United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana (2025)

• United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana (2025) 

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