Melissa Pavlicek – of counsel

Melissa Teves Pavlicek is an attorney with Vantage Counsel. Ms. Pavlicek’s practice emphasizes government affairs, business transactions, limited liability company, partnership, non-profit and corporate law. Ms. Pavlicek assists clients in developing legislative and government relations strategy, drafting legislation, analyzing legal and political issues concerning legislative measures, drafting testimony, monitoring legislation, lobbying members of the state legislature and administration, testifying before legislative and other governmental agencies. She has assisted clients in building coalitions with community and corporate partners and, prior to becoming an attorney, worked as a public relations professional in California and Hawaii.

Ms. Pavlicek has been an attorney in private practice in Honolulu since 1996 and has worked at the Hawaii State Senate and House of Representatives and in the Honolulu City Council.

Ms. Pavlicek is a contributing author to the Hawai‘i State Bar Association’s Corporations Manual and teaches seminars on lobbying for non-profit organizations.