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Michael Miguel

McKool Smith

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Litigation Star
Practice Areas:
Insurance
Labor and employment
Profile

Michael John Miguel is a trial lawyer in the firm’s Los Angeles and Houston offices. He concentrates his active trial practice on high stakes commercial litigation, with an emphasis on insurance coverage, energy-related issues, environmental, antitrust, intellectual property, and toxic tort defense matters. Mr. Miguel represents and counsels clients on a national and international basis, and has assisted in obtaining insurance recoveries counted in the billions of dollars. 

Mr. Miguel has successfully appeared before state and federal trial and appellate courts in twenty-eight (28) states and the U.S. Supreme Court, and has tried cases to verdict/judgment in five different states. He has also conducted multiple domestic and international arbitration proceedings. 

For well over a decade, Mr. Miguel has been a member of insurance recovery practice groups rated by Chambers & Partners and recognized as “Insurance Group of the Year” by Law360. He has been named one of the “Top 100 Lawyers of California” by the Daily Journal Corporation, and is annually included in Best Lawyers in America and as a leading lawyer in Insurance Litigation as well as Insurance Law. 


Updated Sep 2024

Address:
300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 2900
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Tel:+1 213 694 1030 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:www.mckoolsmith.com