Mike’s practice focuses on challenging government regulations before they are enforced and defending clients in criminal and regulatory investigations. When companies encounter allegations of wrongdoing, Mike has conducted many internal investigations on their behalf, while carefully avoiding disruption of the client’s important business operations. He has worked extensively with the Audit Committees and senior management of public companies to determine how to comprehensively resolve suggestions of misconduct. And he has defended multiple executives against criminal cases brought by the United States Department of Justice and against civil suits and administrative proceedings brought by multiple federal agencies.

Mike’s civil practice focuses on challenging regulations and government decisions before the government has a chance to enforce them. Cases he handled under the Administrative Procedure Act have reversed rules, regulations, and orders by the Food and Drug Administration, the United States Department of the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, among other agencies. Absent the courts’ intervention, many of these regulations threatened massive upheaval in multiple industries and businesses.

His civil litigation practice spans beyond anti-regulatory suits. He has defended corporations in bet-the-company litigation concerning securities, environmental, employment and fair housing. He has represented states at the request of their governors. He has served as lead counsel for three former Attorneys General of the United States before the Supreme Court.

During the administration of President George W. Bush, he served as deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council at the White House and in the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.

Mike graduated with high honors from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was Articles Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. Immediately after law school, Mike served as a law clerk to the Honorable Danny J. Boggs on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

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Education
JD, University of Chicago Law School, high honors, 2001

BA, University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, 1998