Mark Melchert

Member of the Firm
Extension: 607
Email: mmelchert@jdolaw.com
Assistant: Jerry Bolivar, Ext. 608

MARK MELCHERT is a member of the firm focusing primarily on Business and Commercial law and Commercial Litigation. He represents business and government clients in a broad range of transactional matters, as well as dispute resolution including litigation.

Mr. Melchert's experience includes:

• Negotiating and drafting a variety of commercial agreements including easements, leases with federal agencies and other leases, stock and business asset sale and purchase agreements, and financing agreements.
• Negotiating and successfully resolving contract disputes.
• Representing shareholders in shareholder disputes and related litigation.
• Developing Public Contract Solicitations.
• Obtaining a federal grant to support a client's native lands program.
• Successfully resolving a number of issues and disputes involving "rights of way", native lands and the public interest.
• Preparing and maintaining various corporate documents.
• Arranging site control for HUD-funded programs.
• Representing a range of clients in litigation involving property, commercial and business disputes.

Mr. Melchert served as a summer fellow in the McArthur Program on Peace and International Cooperation. He is also a board member of the Minnesota Justice Foundation.

Areas of Expertise

• Business Formation and Planning
• Commercial Transactions
• Commercial Litigation
• Public Procurement

Education

• J.D., University of Minnesota, cum laude, 1992
• Articles Editor, Journal of Law & Inequality
• B.A., Concordia College (Moorehead, Minnesota), magna cum laude, 1988

Bar Admissions

• Alaska

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court, District of Alaska

Memberships

• Alaska Bar Association; Member Bar Examiners Committee