Appellate Advocacy, Dispute Resolution and Trial Advocacy
James Michel
About
Professor Michel is an attorney with the Chicago law firm of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he concentrates his practice in general commercial litigation, banking litigation and product liability litigation. For the past four years, he has served as co-coach of Loyola University’s team in the American Bar Association Negotiation Competition. He has helped lead both of Loyola’s teams to the Regional finals two out of those three years and helped lead one of the teams to the National semifinals in February 2011. In the Spring of 2012, he helped coach Loyola’s team in the Warsaw Negotiation Round, an international negotiation competition that included schools from all over the world He graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2004. During the 2003-04 school year, he served as Editor-in-Chief for the Loyola Consumer Law Review.
Degrees
B.A., Purdue, 1998
J.D., Loyola, 2004