Mike started his legal career in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he practiced in the area of commercial litigation, primarily in the context of the oil and gas industry. Currently, Mike concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial and construction litigation. Mike has represented general contractors, subcontractors, sureties and architects in a wide range of disputes with public and private owners throughout the New York metropolitan area. Mike’s public projects include schools, prisons, sewage treatment plants, hospitals, firehouses, libraries, roads, bridges and historic structures. Mike’s private projects include high-rise condominiums and office buildings, commercial buildings and airline terminals, by way of brief example.

• Trinity Broadcasting Corp v. Eller, 835 F.2d 245 (C.A.10 (Okla.) 1987), cert. denied 487 U.S. 1273 (1988)
• Albin v. Dallacqua, 254 A.D.2d 366, 679 N.Y.S.2d 402 (2d Dep’t 1998)
• City of New York v. Cross Bay Contracting, 93 N.Y.2d 14, 686 N.Y.S.2d 750 (1999)
• Breslin Realty Development Corp. v. Richard B. Lituchy d/b/a RBL & Associates, Architects, 269 A.D.2d 554, 703 N.Y.S.2d 746 (2d Dep’t 2000)
• 153 Hudson Development, LLC v. DiNunno, 8 A.D.2d 77, 778 N.Y.S.2d 482 (1st Dep’t 2004)
• Federal Ins. Co. v. McKane, 2008 WL 744745 (C.A.2 (N.Y.) 2008)
• Picone/McCullagh v. Miele, 283 A.D.2d 501, 724 N.Y.S.2d 473 (2d Dep’t 2001)
• Utica Mutual Ins. Co. v. Cardet Constr. Co., Inc., 114 A.D.3d 847, 981 N.Y.S.2d 118 (2d Dep’t 2014)
• Sabr Chemicals Group, LLC v. Northeast Chemicals, Inc., 192 A.D.3d 647, 146 N.Y.S.3d 77 (1st Dep’t 2021)

Publications

• “The FTC and the Generic Doctrine: A New Rx for Pharmaceutical Trademarks,” 15 Tulsa Law Review 327, 1979
• “The FTC and the Generic Doctrine: A New Rx for Pharmaceutical Trademarks,” Intellectual Property Law Review – 1981, 381
• “Corporate Aliens and Oklahoma’s Alien Landownership Restrictions,” 16 Tulsa Law Review 528, 1981
• Co-Author, Henry L. Goldberg, “Don’t Forget the Federal Arbitration Act,” Journal of Construction Accounting and Taxation, Vol. 9, No. 3, May/June, 1999