Overview
As legal malpractice cases proliferate, so too does the need for attorneys who will aggressively defend attorneys. For the past 20 years, Mike has adopted an intellectual approach and exhibited tenacious zeal in defending the interests of clients. His practice includes legal and professional malpractice defense, insurance coverage, appellate practice and complex civil litigation matters. An active member of the defense bar, Mike occasionally appeared for amici in appellate proceedings to facilitate the thoughtful development of jurisprudence in state of Wisconsin.
Experience
Membership & Involvement
- Executive Editor & Contributor: Wisconsin Law Quarterly.
- Member: State Bar of Wisconsin; Wisconsin Defense Counsel; Milwaukee Bar Association
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Defense Counsel, 2013-2014
Honors
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ rated
- Happy Public Domain Day!
Happy Public Domain Day!Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinRead Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectKeep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalOn May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
Services
Education
Marquette University Law School, J.D., 1995, cum laude
Marquette University, H.B.A., 1992
Admissions
- Wisconsin