The Melton Law Firm

Focus and practice areas

Employment law is the center of the firm's work in Austin. The Melton Law Firm represents Texas workers who have disputes with their employers. Its cases cover wrongful termination, workplace discrimination, and sexual harassment. The firm also handles overtime and wage claims, hostile work environment claims, retaliation, whistleblower matters, and equal pay disputes.

Civil rights issues fall inside the same body of work. The firm names one narrower area as well: employment violations tied to car dealerships. These often involve how sales and service staff are paid, including commission structures and overtime for the hours they work. The site frames the work around federal and state law, and around the protections that apply to Texas workers in an employment-at-will state.

Several of these areas overlap in a single matter. A worker fired after reporting harassment might bring both a discrimination claim and a retaliation claim. Equal pay disputes look at whether people doing the same job receive different pay for reasons the law bars. Whistleblower matters protect employees who report conduct they believe breaks the law. The firm groups all of this under representation of the employee.

The lawyer who leads the firm

John F. Melton runs the Melton Law Firm, and he is an Austin native. He has been Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law in Texas since 2008. He also holds Board Certification in Civil Trial Law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. That second certification points to trial work, and it sits alongside the employment focus.

Melton earned a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He completed a J.D. at the University of San Diego School of Law in 1999, where he was Comment Editor of the San Diego Law Review. He has held a Texas law license since 1999. His court admissions include the Western, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas, along with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Those federal admissions matter, because many employment claims proceed in federal court.

Board certification in Texas goes beyond holding a law license. It calls for a set number of years in the field, a written exam, references from judges and peers, and periodic renewal. Holding it in two fields, labor and employment plus civil trial law, points to sustained work in both.

How Texas employment claims tend to move

Texas follows the employment-at-will rule, which shapes how many of these cases begin. The at-will default means an employer can end a job for many reasons, yet it cannot fire someone for a reason the law protects against. Federal laws such as Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act apply here, and the Texas Labor Code adds a state layer.

Workers who claim discrimination or harassment usually file an administrative charge before a lawsuit can go forward. Those charges go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Texas Workforce Commission. The agency reviews the charge and can issue a right to sue letter, which opens the door to court. Wage and overtime claims often turn on the Fair Labor Standards Act, the federal law that sets rules on hours and pay. Retaliation and whistleblower matters carry their own deadlines and proof requirements. In my opinion, this context tells a worker more about the road ahead than any tagline could, because it shows the ground these cases cover.

Work beyond the workplace

The firm's docket reaches past employment law. It handles personal injury matters, and the site names trucking accidents and auto accidents within that work. The firm also accepts wrongful death cases. These are Texas civil claims with their own filing rules and time limits, and they run on a separate track from the employment side. Trucking cases in particular can bring in federal safety rules and questions about which parties bear responsibility for a commercial vehicle.

What the record shows

The picture here is a focused employment law firm led by one board-certified attorney. As a reviewer, I read the two board certifications as the firm's strongest verifiable detail, because the Texas Board of Legal Specialization grants them against set standards and requires ongoing renewal. The site lists a clear group of practice areas and one named lawyer with a documented record of education and court admissions.

The site shows a copyright range that starts in 2008, though it states no explicit founding year. For a worker weighing an employment claim, the pairing of a labor and employment certification with a civil trial certification covers both the negotiation stage and the courtroom stage. The firm publishes its practice areas and its lead attorney's credentials on the site, which gives a starting point for a background check. Prospective clients can confirm Melton's board certifications and his court admissions through the State Bar of Texas.

Office details and direct contact

The listing places the office at 6001 Bold Ruler Way in Austin, Texas. The overview adds Suite 100, a useful detail for correspondence and in-person appointments. The structured address field stops at the street line, so the suite number should remain attached whenever the full office address appears elsewhere in the directory.

The published telephone number is (512) 789-8892. It appears in both the firm overview and the separate phone field, with the same formatting in each place. That internal consistency matters in a directory entry because it gives prospective clients one direct number for the office. Calling also gives a prospective client a practical way to confirm the suite number before a scheduled visit.

The website uses the domain jfmeltonlaw.com, which incorporates John F. Melton's initials and surname. That detail connects the web address to the named attorney and helps distinguish the firm when someone moves from the directory entry to the firm's own materials. The directory can therefore present the street address and telephone number alongside a web address that is readily associated with the lawyer identified in the record.

For directory purposes, the contact information is more precise than the short address field initially suggests. The overview supplies the missing suite designation, while the separate phone field confirms the number printed in the narrative. A careful listing should use 6001 Bold Ruler Way, Suite 100, Austin, TX, together with (512) 789-8892. These details give readers a complete physical destination and a direct contact route without requiring them to reconstruct the office information from separate parts of the record.