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    Melissa H. Redmon

    Partner

    New Orleans
    504-584-9302
    melissa.redmon@phelps.com
    Areas Of Focus
    Insurance

    Melissa Redmon helps insurers handle coverage determinations and policy wordings to mitigate risk. She resolves coverage issues involving professional liability, commercial general liability and financial lines policies. She has completed two secondments with leading Lloyd’s syndicates, gaining an in-house perspective that helps her translate complex issues into clear coverage opinions and practical solutions.

    Melissa also served as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and she graduated in the top 1% of her class at Tulane University Law School. 

    Insights

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    Recognition

    • Insurance Law (2026), The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch
    • Insurance Law (2026), The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch

    Education

    • Tulane University Law School, J.D., summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2018
    • Rhodes College, B.A., International Studies & Political Science, cum laude, 2015
    • Tulane University Law School, J.D., summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2018
    • Rhodes College, B.A., International Studies & Political Science, cum laude, 2015

    Credentials

    • Louisiana
    • Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. Eldon E. Fallon, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
    • Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. W. Eugene Davis, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
    • Louisiana
    • Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. Eldon E. Fallon, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
    • Judicial Law Clerk for Hon. W. Eugene Davis, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
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