Melissa Roover was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  She attended Tufts University for her undergraduate education, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1991.  After graduation Ms. Roover worked as a litigation paralegal in Washington, D.C. before attending law school at Boston University. She was awarded her Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1996. Following graduation from law school Ms. Roover practiced telecommunications law for the next nine years.  As part of her work she analyzed and gave presentations on the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC’s”) implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; represented America Online and other Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) on broadband issues in proceedings before the FCC; and litigated a dispute between an ISP and a large telecommunications carrier over access to its network.  She also acquired extensive experience with the Federal False Claims Act (“FCA”).  She represented the whistleblowers in the first civil case involving Iraq Reconstruction fraud, United States ex rel. DRC, Inc. v. Custer Battles, and obtained a jury verdict of nearly $10 million after a four-week jury trial.  For their work on the Custer Battles case, Ms. Roover and her colleagues were finalists for the 2006 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award given by the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.  She continues to focus on FCA cases involving Medicare, Iraq Reconstruction, and other government contracting fraud.  Ms. Roover is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the State of New York. In addition, she is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.