Mike is passionate about promoting economic justice and ensuring that everyone has equitable access to free and fair markets. Mike’s practice focuses on antitrust and complex litigation, and he has experience at all stages of litigation and antitrust matters across a range of industries, including in pharmaceutical, higher education, automotive, and real estate markets. Mike has also maintained an active pro bono practice focused largely on election law and voting rights.

His pro bono work includes representing plaintiffs in a voting rights challenge to a state’s legislative maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution, including claims that the maps diluted Black Mississippians’ voting power and constituted racial gerrymanders. He has also represented a major municipality in ballot access litigation.

Before joining SCL, Mike was an associate at a large law firm, where he worked on a variety of litigation matters and advised clients on identifying and mitigating antitrust risk. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before his clerkship, Mike practiced in the antitrust group at another major law firm, where he worked on significant antitrust matters, including a class action alleging an anticompetitive conspiracy between brand and generic pharmaceutical companies arising from the settlement of prior patent litigation.

Mike graduated from Duke University School of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the Alaska Law Review and Executive Director of the Economic Justice Project. At Duke, Mike interned with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, in the San Francisco Office, where he worked on Section 1 and Section 2 Sherman Act matters, primarily involving large technology companies. He also interned with the North Carolina Department of Justice, Solicitor General’s Office, where he helped prepare for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court and worked on a multistate antitrust matter involving a major technology company.