Melysa S. Alvarez

• Streamlined operational procedures to enhance efficiency across firm processes.
• Led cross-functional teams to implement strategic initiatives aligned with organizational goals.
• Oversaw client relationship management, improving satisfaction and retention rates.
• Developed training programs for staff, enhancing skills and fostering professional growth.
• Continued consultations and representation in family law, estate planning, and misdemeanor criminal law.

Delivered effective client consultations. Engaged in contested hearings, including divorce, SAPCRs, and terminations, enhancing client understanding and preparedness. Strengthened representation in estate planning matters, contributing to successful outcomes. Managed client intakes and fostered relationships across multiple counties, including Hays, Bell, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Williamson, Travis, Zavala, Hidalgo, Bastrop, and Gonzales. Conducted thorough research in family law and estate planning through Westlaw, ensuring informed legal strategies.

• Submitted bench briefs regarding community property and discovery, drafted responses in opposition, court appearances, attended mediation, Motion for Arbitration, Motion for Temporary Orders, Judge to Confer with client

• Reviewed the processes to interview incarcerated individuals; researched and drafted a memorandum on the opposition and obstacles to due process related to Operation Lonestar
• Alternate Winter Break Clerk

• First-chaired proving up of divorces as part of divorce on demand program and received a default judgement of attorney’s fees
• Drafted, filed, and edited motions to set: trial, hearing, temporary orders, continuance; appealed CPS investigations findings

• Analyzed evidence for use at trial and asylum petitions
• Conducted research on immigration petitions
• Drafted and filed requests for production, interrogatories, requests for admissions, rule 194 requests for disclosure, expedition letters for U-Visa applications, and DACA renewal applications

• Conducted research on family violence; drafted memoranda on standing to intervene in suits affecting parent-child relationships
• Attended hearings regarding temporary protective orders and restraining orders

• Researched for and drafted memoranda regarding standing to intervene in a modification suit, definition of “present circumstances,” parental entitlement to court appointed counsel, and duration of stays and special exceptions in family law
• Responded to interrogatories and summarized interlocral agreements

• First-chaired trial on merits obtaining favorable verdict for client in a divorce; divorce granted on grounds of cruelty; drafted and conducted opening statement, direct and cross-examinations, and closing argument
• Served as amicus attorney in modification of parent-child relationship suit, investigated immediate and extended family members
• Drafted and executed wills, power of attorney documents, transfer on death deed, medical power of attorneys, and directive to physicians
• Civil Justice Clinic – Family Law