Mike has more than 37 years of experience with class actions and other complex cases, including wage-hour class actions and collective actions, consumer products class actions, racketeering (RICO), and labor disputes with unions and employee groups. In 2025, he was elected to be a Fellow in The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. He has tried more class actions and representative actions to verdict than perhaps any other attorney in the country. He has spent 215 trial days in court, including in a dozen class actions or other representative actions tried to verdict, the majority of which have resulted in zero recoveries by the plaintiffs.

Mike has earned multiple awards for his aggressive, innovative and successful track record, including The American Lawyer's 2015 "Litigator of the Week," The National Law Journal's 2016 "Litigation Trailblazer" and Law 360's 2016 "Class Action MVP."

Mike helps his clients to avoid litigation but, if they are sued, to successfully navigate pretrial proceedings, trials and appeals. In many cases, he has successfully avoided trial by defeating class treatment or winning dismissal on the pleadings or on summary judgment.

Mike's experience covers a broad spectrum and includes unmanned aircraft systems, antitrust law, bankruptcy, corporate takeover and valuation disputes and claims against former officers/directors, consumer products law, contract disputes, credit counseling law, foreign military sales, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, labor and employment law, media law, racketeering (RICO) and securities law.

Mike has litigated at all levels of the federal court system and in the state courts of California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. He is admitted to practice in the following jurisdictions: US Supreme Court; US Court of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Circuits; US District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Middle, Northern, and Southern Districts of Florida, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the Central and Northern Districts of Illinois. He held a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Avern Cohn, US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

A regular speaker and writer on the topics of class actions or RICO, Mike has been quoted and mentioned frequently in media coverage of litigation matters and has appeared on CNN and PBS. He is a contributing author to the firm's retail industry blog.

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Education
JD, University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, Managing Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1985

AB, University of Michigan, with highest distinction, Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982