Michael has years of trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts throughout the United States, with particular emphasis in Texas and Louisiana. Below is a brief summary of a few of the many cases Michael has handled:

• Successfully defended a major oil company in a well blowout case
• Successfully defended major oil companies in multi-billion dollar environmental litigation
• Successfully defended energy companies in the mass tort litigation involving alleged releases of toxic substances
• Successfully defended businesses facing class action litigation, in a variety of settings
• Successfully defended national companies in employment litigation brought by the EEOC and by individual plaintiffs in courts throughout the U.S.
• Successfully defended energy companies, chemical companies and others in catastrophic injury and death cases
• Successfully defended a Texas Governor’s Chief of Staff and Press Secretary, in defamation suits
• Successfully defended a former Enron director in securities litigation
• In addition to his work as a defense lawyer, Michael is unique in that he has also represented various corporate clients as plaintiffs in numerous cases throughout the U.S. in a variety of areas of law including legal malpractice, accounting malpractice, indemnity claims and others, and has represented individual Plaintiffs in catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims. Michael has assisted his business and individual Plaintiff clients, in recovering tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements.

“When an in-house corporate counsel hires me, a big part of my job is to keep them well-informed. My job is to be collaborative and focused on solutions…with an early, candid risk assessment and, above all, to make sure that there are no surprises. We become teammates.”