Mike has extensive experience advising management on a range of employment issues, including wage and hour compliance, the protection of trade secrets, employee recruiting and hiring, employment agreements, personnel policies, leaves of absence, employee classifications, performance management, severance agreements, and preventing harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. 

Mike is also an experienced appellate advocate, having won several appeals in state and federal appellate courts.   

Mike has also conducted numerous training programs for managers on topics such as managing within the law, essential personnel policies, new employment laws, social media and the workplace, and preventing harassment and discrimination in the workplace.  He has trained senior executives and managers in various industries, including high-technology, manufacturing, transportation, and entertainment companies.

Mike served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Rudolph T. Randa of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1998 to 1999, and for the Honorable Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1999 to 2001.

Selected cases:

• Campbell, et al v. Vitran Express, Inc., 2012 WL 746276, No. 12-55052 (9th Cir., March 8, 2012)

• Gallo v. Youbet.com, B230274, Second Appellate District, Div. 7 (February 14, 2012)

• Raining Data Corp. v. Barrenechea, 175 Cal. App. 4th 1363 (2009).