Admissions

• California

Recognitions

• Chambers USA
  2021 - Band 3, California Media & Entertainment: Litigation
  2018-20 - Band 3, California Media & Entertainment: Litigation
• The Legal 500 United States
  2021 - Recommended, Media and Entertainment: Litigation
• Nominated, Los Angeles Business Journal, "Leaders in Law," 2020
• Selected, Variety, "Legal Impact Report," 2019
• Los Angeles Business Journal's ,Top Litigator and Trial Lawyer, 2019

Education

• J.D., University of California at Los Angeles School of Law 1991
• B.A., University of Michigan 1988
  with distinction

Courts

• All California state courts
• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Central District of California
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Memberships

• Los Angeles Copyright Society, Member
  
  • Board of Trustees, Trustee-At-Large, (2015 – 2017)

CIVIC AND CHARITABLE

Michael has a long history of leadership within the Anti-Defamation League, one of the world's preeminent civil rights and anti-hate organizations. Michael currently serves as Vice Chair and a member of the Executive Committee for the Pacific Southwest Region and an ADL National Commissioner. Michael previously served as Vice Chair of the Pacific Southwest Region from 2014 through 2016 and has served as a chair or member of the dinner committee for the ADL's annual entertainment industry gala for more than a decade, honoring among others Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Silverman, and Roma Downey and Mark Burnett.