Michael
Mihm’s unique trial practice focuses on plaintiff-side legal malpractice,
commercial, and personal injury litigation. He is admitted to practice in
California and Colorado, but represents clients in courtrooms nationwide.
Michael has obtained some of the largest plaintiff legal malpractice jury
verdicts and settlements in the United States, and many multi-million dollar
verdicts and settlements in commercial and personal injury litigation.
Michael is a co-founder of Ogborn Mihm, LLP, and practices from both the Denver
and Los Angeles offices. He is one of the few plaintiffs' attorneys in
the United States to be certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law
by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Michael is included among
The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Commercial
Litigation and, also, Legal Malpractice Law-Plaintiff, for which he was three
times named the Denver "Lawyer of the Year" (first in 2015, again in
2017, and again for 2019). In 2018, Michael was named by Colorado Super
Lawyers® magazine as of one of Colorado’s “Top 100”
lawyers. Michael is a Past President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers
Association, the largest specialty bar organization in Colorado. Michael has been inducted as member of the American
Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He is a graduate of the Gerry Spence
Trial Lawyer’s College in Dubois, Wyoming.
Michael
has prosecuted or defended hundreds of legal malpractice lawsuits, has tried
many such cases to verdict, and has also served as an expert witness in many
such lawsuits. Since 2005, Michael has served as an author and
managing editor of Lawyers' Professional Liability in Colorado, 2017
Ed. (Michael T. Mihm ed., CLE in Colorado, Inc., 2017). This
two-volume, 57-chapter treatise, updated annually, focuses on
lawyers' professional liability and legal ethics issues.
Michael's legal
malpractice clients are usually companies or business people. Michael’s
referrals generally come from in-house counsel or outside general counsel who,
often, are addressing intractable problems caused by the client’s former outside
counsel. Because Michael also has a substantial business litigation practice,
he brings a sophistication to legal malpractice problems born of many years of
litigation experience in many industries. Michael’s legal malpractice
cases often involve underlying business or real estate transactions, but
also include tax law, estate planning, intellectual property law, patent law,
land use law, securities law, and many other matters.
Michael also has a
significant business and corporate litigation practice. Michael’s business litigation cases often arise from breach of contract disputes,
corporate control, oil and gas transactions, real estate disputes,
oppression of minority business owners, partnership disputes, theft of trade
secrets, intellectual property disputes, computer fraud, and claims arising
from breaches of fiduciary duty and other misconduct by company insiders.
Michael also
personally tries select medical malpractice, wrongful death and catastrophic
personal injury cases.
