Biography
Michael takes a strategic, results-driven approach to his practice, advising clients on complex commercial disputes, challenging employment matters and high-stakes business decisions.
Michael represents a range of business clients, including manufacturers, medical device companies and banks, who trust him to provide creative solutions to their problems using a disciplined strategy and keen sense of timing. Whether through early negotiation, aggressive motion practice, trial or appeal, Michael tailors his approach to his clients’ needs. He protects his clients’ interests and their bottom lines, providing timely analysis so they can make well-informed business decisions at every stage.
Michael has built his career on delivering under pressure. His approach is consistent — understand the client’s business objectives, develop a cost-efficient strategy that advances those objectives and provide a clear path toward resolution.
A former judicial clerk, Michael has an insider’s perspective on how judges reach decisions, what makes for a winning position and what pitfalls to avoid. This experience informs every brief he writes, every argument he makes and every strategic recommendation he delivers.
Representative Matters
- Obtained an injunction for breach of employment contracts, then affirmed the decision on appeal.
- Secured dismissal of employment discrimination claims and affirmed the finding on appeal.
- Negotiated a multimillion-dollar resolution of a breach of a medical device supply agreement.
- Part of trial team that secured victory for a contractor in a nuclear power dispute.
- Successfully defeated a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in a high-stakes battle over e-commerce technology with claims involving breaches of non-competition and non-solicitation provisions, commercial trade libel, defamation, tortious interference with contractual relations, misappropriation of trade secrets and contributory trademark infringement.
- Secured dismissal of civil rights claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983.
- Obtained summary judgment on claims alleging invasion of privacy involving documents allegedly found on a business’ website.
- Obtained summary judgment on claims alleging that a general contractor’s duty of care extended beyond the construction zone.
- Successfully defeated claims for breach of easement, trespass and statutory violations of Wis. Stat. §§ 182.017(5) and 26.09.
- Obtained summary judgment for a regional hospital on claims alleging retaliation under the Family and Medical Leave Act and Minnesota’s Whistleblower Act.
- Obtained summary judgment on a more than quarter-million-dollar claim for contribution and indemnity pertaining to a damaged wind turbine.
- Obtained over $100,000 judgment, including costs and attorneys’ fees, for a commercial building owner in a breach of contract claim.
Before Fox Rothschild
Before joining Fox Rothschild, Michael was previously an attorney at a boutique Minneapolis firm. He also served as a judicial law clerk in the Minnesota District Court and worked under a Federal Magistrate at the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
Education
- University of Minnesota Law School (J.D., 2015)
- University of Minnesota (B.A., 2012)
Memberships
- PGA Tour’s 3M Open - Pioneer Club (2022– present)
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- Court Rules and Administration Committee (2021 – present)
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the list of “Super Lawyers Rising Stars" for Business Litigation in Minnesota by Super Lawyers (2020- 2025)
Selected to the “Ones to Watch” list for Commercial Litigation in Minneapolis by Best Lawyers (2026)
