About Me
Mike’s practice focuses on complex commercial, business, and international litigation, including contract disputes, real estate, product and premises liability, and insurance coverage. He has a particular interest in cross-border disputes, and also has extensive experience in franchise and distribution, eminent domain, and class action litigation. Mike is a member of the firm’s Litigation, Petroleum, International, and Franchise & Distribution teams.
Mike has successfully represented petroleum product manufacturers, real estate brokers and agents, developers, management companies, franchisors, policyholders, software developers, patent licensors, seafood processors, and other companies and individuals before state and federal courts and in arbitrations throughout the Western United States and internationally. His achievements include jury trial defense verdicts in a multi-million dollar product and premises liability class action, a multi-family toxic exposure lawsuit, and a multi-party real estate misrepresentation action, as well as successful prosecution of a licensing royalties claim before an International Chamber of Commerce arbitral tribunal in Tokyo, Japan. Mike has been a speaker and panelist on litigation topics relating to the real estate, product liability, petroleum industries, and legal ethics.