Barbara Murphy Melby

Partner

Barbara M. Melby is a partner in the Global Outsourcing Group at Morgan Lewis. Ms. Melby's practice focuses primarily on outsourcing transactions, including information technology and business process outsourcing, as well as other technology-related transactions, including development agreements, system implementation agreements, licensing and hosting agreements, technology services, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

One of the leading outsourcing attorneys in the United States, Ms. Melby co-authored two of the seminal works in the outsourcing field, Information Technology Outsourcing: Process, Strategies, and Contracts (John Wiley, 2005) and Business Process Outsourcing: Process, Strategies, and Contracts (John Wiley, 2007). Ms. Melby was recently recognized by Chambers USA and by Chambers Global as one of the leading lawyers for business process outsourcing. Ms. Melby has also been named as "HRO Attorney of the Year 2007" by the Human Resources Outsourcing Association and one of the 2006, 2007, and 2008 HRO Superstars by HRO Today magazine.

Ms. Melby represents a large and diverse client base, including in the life sciences, financial institution, health and retail industries. Most recently she has completed a groundbreaking, global multi-tower business process outsourcing (BPO) transaction for a leading pharmaceutical company, a large offshore outsourcing transaction for a major insurance company, a global IT outsourcing (ITO) transaction for a leading international media company, a financial and accounting services outsourcing (FAO) transaction for a major pharmaceutical company, a human resources outsourcing (HRO) transaction for large services provider and a warehousing and logistics outsourcing for a well-known office services provider.

In addition to her two books, she has written numerous articles in and has been widely quoted in a wide variety of publications to include CIO Magazine, HR Executive, ITWorld, HRO Today, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and The Pennsylvania Lawyer. Ms. Melby is also a frequent speaker on outsourcing and technology transactions at various business, legal, and professional conferences.

Ms. Melby is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and New York.