Michael J. West
Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As a Senior Associate in our Appellate practice, Michael West has experience litigating at every level of the federal judiciary—and in multiple state courts—across a wide range of issues, including constitutional, antitrust, administrative, patent, copyright, tort, and criminal law.
Michael has briefed dozens of appeals in federal and state court, including four merits cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he has argued before the Sixth Circuit and in New York’s appellate court. Michael also maintains an active pro bono practice. Among his other matters, Michael convinced a federal court to reduce a defendant’s mandatory life sentence to time served. Michael also represented several families separated at the southern border in a lawsuit against the federal government.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Michael served as a law clerk for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. And before law school, Michael spent two years working as an associate at a federal consulting firm.
Credentials
- Juris Doctor, University of Virginia School of Law, 2018
- Bachelor of Arts, Georgetown University, Magna cum laude, 2013
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland