Mike is a partner in Thompson Coburn's St. Louis office. He is a member of the firm's Complex Litigation Group, Chair of the firm's Tobacco Litigation Group and Co-Chair of the firm's Consumer Products and Electronic Discovery Groups. He has been a member of the firm's Management Committee since 2000.
Mike has tried as lead counsel numerous matters in state and federal courts involving a variety of substantive areas. He has extensive experience in complex litigation, including products liability, RICO and toxic tort claims and contract disputes. He tried, on behalf of Lorillard Tobacco Company, United States v. Philip Morris et al,a RICO case brought by the United States Department of Justice. The trial, which lasted nearly 10 months, was the subject of intense media coverage and has been called the largest civil trial in U.S. history. Mike also has extensive experience in trying arbitration matters, including construction claims and securities claims. He was among the first to obtain multimillion-dollar arbitration awards stemming from the Texas savings and loan scandal. He has successfully managed many matters which required mastering technical and scientific issues in areas such as epidemiology, medicine, toxicology, statistics, mathematical modeling, and scientific survey methodology.