Jeff Melsheimer joined Susman Godfrey after clerking for the Honorable Alan D Albright of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Jeff is a member of Judge Albright’s Working Group, which collaborates to provide input on rules governing patent proceedings in Waco, Texas. Jeff graduated cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review. While in law school, Jeff was an active member of the Children’s Rights Clinic, where he sat first chair as an attorney ad litem for children in termination of parental rights cases. Jeff took one case to trial, delivering an opening statement and examining two witnesses. Before law school, Jeff graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in Political Science and minored in Business Economics.