Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Mike Baumann is a partner in Kirkland’s Los Angeles office and has served as trial and appellate counsel advising and representing major corporate clients in federal and state courts and in arbitration.

Mike initially joined Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office in 1980 following a clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. He left the Firm in 1984 for a two-year period to accept a political appointment in the senior executive service of the federal government, serving as chief legal counsel of an independent agency. In that position, Mike dealt with congress, the administration and the courts on a variety of issues. Mike was also appointed to serve as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an organization formed to identify and recommend solutions to Congress and the President regarding the causes of inefficiency, delay and unfairness in administrative proceedings affecting private rights.

In 1990, Mike and one other partner from Kirkland’s Washington office moved to Los Angeles to open a new office for the Firm. The office has grown from four lawyers to more than 100 lawyers.

College of William and Mary/Marshall-Wythe School of Law, J.D., 1979; Princeton University, A.B., 1976.