Michael
I blend keen business and legal intellect & experience, to provide powerful and common sense approaches that deliver exceptional results
Michael
I am known by my clients as a terrific, entrepreneurial-minded attorney offering a unique blend of legal and business skills and experience. I am a winning and persuasive advocate before federal and state courts, regulators, boards, bond holders, rating agencies, investors, financial institutions, customers, and local, state and national community leaders. I am experienced in commercial transactions, dispute resolution, litigation, regulatory compliance, corporate growth and asset optimization. I have a J.D., magna cum laude, from Temple University School of Law, am a member in good standing of the Colorado Bar, and have the highest rating among my peers of AV Preeminent™
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Law Review
Best Brief – 1992 Herman Stern Moot Court CompetitionAmerican Jurisprudence Award – Legal Writing (1992)
Distinguished Class Performance – Evidence, Juvenile Law, Trial Advocacy
Best Paper – Local Government Law
Philadelphia Public Defenders Office – Homeless Advocacy Project
B.A., Economics | Philosophy minor, cum laude, VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
Phi Kappa PhiNational Honor Society
Staff Writer for Villanovan Newspaper
Judicial Clerkship, The Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter,United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit, 1992
Bar & Court Admissions
Colorado State Bar
Colorado Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
U.S. District Courts of Colorado, Nebraska, Southern Texas, Western Oklahoma
Awards and Publications
AV Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell
DBJ Corporate Counsel of the Year finalist, 2012
“The 'Pay–When-Paid' Dilemma,” The Colorado Lawyer, November 1996
“Environmental Law-Third Circuit Reexamines Divisibility Under CERCLA,”Temple Law Review, 1993
Former Member AGA legal committee