About Mike
EDUCATION
- UCLA School of Law, LL.M., May 2025
- Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
HONORS & AWARDS
- NSU Law
- Class Rank: 15/288
- Nova Law Review, Volume 48
- Van Horn Law Groups Pro Bono Honor Program
- CALI Book Awards:
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- Class Rank: 2/188
- Thomas Jefferson Law Review Association
- Ben Templin’s & David H. Spratt’s Contracts: A Modern Coursebook (3rd ed. 2023), Contributor
- CALI Book Awards:
SELECT LEGAL EXPERIENCE
- Office of the Federal Public Defender, Noncapital Habeas Unit
- UCLA Prisoners’ Rights Clinic
- Reid Levin, PLLC, Law Clerk
- NSU Veterans Law Clinic
- NSU Disability Inclusion and Advocacy Law (DIAL) Clinic
- Ramey Litigation Group APC, Law Clerk
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Teaching Assistant
- Apsan Law Offices, Law Clerk
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Jewish Law Students Association
- UCLA Prison Accountability Project
- UCLA El Centro Legal Reentry Clinic
- UCLA El Centro Legal Veterans Clinic
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- San Diego County Bar Association
- Broward County Bar Association
- Miami-Dade Bar Association
- Helping Hands for Ukraine, Volunteer
RESEARCH
- Non-DNA Guilty Plea Exonerations
- Unconstitutional Pretrial Preventive Detention: Recent bail reform legislation constitutionalizing preventive detention, infringing the fundamental right to bail, and causing legally presumed—and in some cases, factually innocent individuals—to suffer pretrial, pre-conviction punishment.