Mr Michael Mueller > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Michael Mueller
Work Department
Food Industry, Consumer Products, Retail, Unmanned Systems Group, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Issues and Appeals, Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation, Labor and Employment, First Amendment and Free Speech, Rocket Docket Practice (US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia), Antitrust and Consumer Protection, Litigation, Second Opinion Program
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Mueller has almost 34 years of experience with bet-the-company class actions and other complex cases, including being lead counsel in over 60 wage-hour class/collective actions and consumer products class actions. His substantive experience includes antitrust law, bankruptcy, contracts, credit counseling, foreign military sales, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, labor and employment, media law, state and federal racketing (RICO) laws, securities law, and warranty/UDTPA laws.
He has tried more group actions to verdict than perhaps any other attorney in the country, including the defense of nine private class actions and a U.S. Secretary of Labor enforcement action against a Fortune 100 food manufacturer.
Focusing on Fortune 100 clients who create and sell goods and services, Mr. Mueller helps his clients to avoid litigation and, if they are sued, to successfully navigate pretrial proceedings, trials and appeals in federal courts and 9 state court systems. Mr. Mueller has spent 183 trial days in court, participating in 19 private-practice trials to verdict and arguing 11 appeals, the majority of which have resulted in zero recoveries by the plaintiffs. In many other cases, he has successfully avoided trial by defeating class treatment or winning dismissal on the pleadings or on summary judgment.
Memberships
Admitted to the District of Columbia, Florida and Illinois Bars
Education
- JD, University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, Managing Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1985
- AB, University of Michigan, with highest distinction, Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings