Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is pleased to announce that Partner and Chair of the Business Litigation Practice, Michael Sherman, has been named to the 2019 LA Business Journal (LABJ) Top Litigators & Trial Lawyers list. The LABJ's first-rate editorial and research teams provide in-depth analyses of the community’s dynamic business and economic scene. Their Lists provide comprehensive data and statistics on top-ranked Los Angeles companies across all industries.
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Michael A. Sherman brings decades of experience in successfully handling disputes and litigation in an extraordinarily diverse array of industries and businesses. His peers in the legal community describe Michael as the consummate trial lawyer, and he approaches every trial as an opportunity to tell his client’s story, in order to win.
In an era of “specialization” in the legal profession, Michael has been fortunate to maintain a trial, litigation and dispute practice that emphasizes achieving great results for clients in areas as varied as real estate acquisition and development, intellectual property/technology, energy, pharmaceuticals/drug development, securities, healthcare, environmental, consumer products, finance, apparel, and others. Michael excels at guiding clients through the perilous waters of disputes and conflicts in virtually any type of business dispute, and in being expertly skilled in helping clients achieve great results in settlement all the way through trial if required.
Michael founded the firm’s Litigation Practice in 2014 and chairs that practice, and earlier in his career, following graduation with honors from Columbia College and thereafter from University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), he was blessed with extensive on-the-job training from several of the nation’s leading trial lawyers, with multiple opportunities to hone his litigation and trial skills. His creativity, persistence and work ethic led him to partnership at a leading Los Angeles litigation boutique at a young age and subsequently to a prominent partnership position at an international Am Law 100 law firm.
Michael has been recognized as a leading trial lawyer by his peers and regularly featured in the press for some of his significant victories on behalf of clients. He is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the association of business trial lawyers. Michael’s trial skills and courtroom success resulted in his being named to the “Top 100 Lawyers” in California list, published by the Daily Journal newspaper chain. For years he has consistently been named to “Best Lawyers in America” and “Super Lawyers”.
In building the firm’s business litigation practice, Michael has spent considerable time becoming expert in the special needs of business entrepreneurs, in representing “risk-takers” in all facets of disputes involving business formation, capital raising, business operation, and business mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as business “divorces” and employment disputes of virtually all stripes for both smaller and larger companies including both the prosecution and defense of class actions. As often as he finds himself representing “Goliath” in litigation matters, he equally finds himself representing ‘David”.
When not preparing cases for trial and in his “spare time,” Michael is active in the Los Angeles philanthropic community and in Bar activities, and spends time with his wife Stacey of 36 years, his three adult children, and participating in LA City life, the arts, traveling, hiking and indoor cycling.
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