As chair of the firm's Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department, Michael’s practice involves representing clients in workout and bankruptcy matters, including:

• secured and unsecured creditors
• creditors’ committees
• trustees
• debtors

As co-chair of the firm's Automotive Practice, Michael also has extensive experience representing automobile dealers as general counsel, including the largest Mercedes-Benz dealership in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has aided automotive clients with issues such as:

• tax controversies - federal and state, including state sales tax disputes
• labor and employment law and compliance issues - wage and hour, employment discrimination, OSHA, unemployment compensation, and employee policies and procedures
• benefits - pension and profit-sharing plans, ESOPs and others
• environmental matters
• litigation
• estate planning
• real estate - including buying and selling of stores

Over his career, Michael has served as counsel in various well-known matters, including:

• counsel for the Chapter 7 Trustee in Winstar Communications, a billion dollar Chapter 7 case in the District of Delaware
• counsel for the Chapter 7 Trustee in Dollarland, a chain of forty-six stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland
• counsel for the Chapter 7 Trustee in American Tissue, one of the largest manufacturers of tissue paper in the United States
• representation of Vacation Charters (Split Rock Lodge) in a successful reorganization under Chapter 11
• representation of the unsecured creditors committee in the Chapter 11 case of one of the former principals of Nutri-Systems