Michael E. Fox Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Michael E. Fox is a mediator and seasoned litigation and trial attorney. His practice focuses on complex civil litigation, mediation, arbitration, trials and transactions.Mr. Fox started the Law Office of Michael E. Fox after acquiring more than twenty-one years of professional business experience and twelve years of legal experience, including more than seven years with an international law firm. He now offers the same "big-firm" level of services that his clients have come to expect at more competitive rates.Mr. Fox provides counseling, risk management, litigation management, trial, mediation and transactional legal services to his clients in difficult matters involving high-stakes business deals and significant exposure. In general, he counsels his clients in developing business strategies, assessing and managing risk, litigating complex disputes, taking cases to trial and negotiating agreements. More specifically, he counsels clients on high-stakes contracts, business torts, advertising liability, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, defamation, privacy, publicity, First Amendment issues, licensing, antitrust issues, contractual interference claims and related business matters.Mr. Fox also relies upon his background of more than 28-years of experience in architecture and construction to counsel clients on construction law matters. He also has experience handling professional liability claims, representing securities broker/dealers in FINRA arbitrations and representing clients in commercial real estate litigation.Mr. Fox has successfully taken cases to trial before judges and juries in both state and federal courts in California. He has also successfully represented clients at mediation and arbitration all over California and in Chicago, Illinois.Finally, Mr. Fox is a frequent speaker and a prolific writer. The topics of his lectures and publications focus on issues relevant to his law practice.

Santa Clarita, California

Greater Los Angeles Area

Mr. Fox spent more than seven years at Sedgwick, LLP - an international AmLaw 100 firm that provides counseling, risk management, litigation management, trial, appellate and transactional legal services. Sedgwick has 15 offices across the United States, Bermuda, London and Paris.At Sedgwick, Mr. Fox's law practice focused on media, entertainment, intellectual property and business litigation and trials. He represented clients, ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies, in developing business strategies, assessing and managing risk, litigating complex disputes, taking cases to trial and negotiating agreements.More specifically, Mr. Fox counseled clients on high-stakes contracts, business torts, advertising liability, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, defamation, privacy, publicity, First Amendment issues, licensing, antitrust issues and related business matters. He also relied on his background in architecture and construction to counsel clients in construction law matters. Moreover, he handled professional liability claims, represented securities broker/dealers in FINRA arbitrations and represented commercial real estate brokers in litigated matters.Mr. Fox successfully took cases to trial before judges and juries in federal courts, and he represented clients at mediations and arbitrations all over California and in Chicago, Illinois. He also graduated from Sedgwick’s Trial Academy – an intense program taught by Sedgwick’s world-renowned trial attorneys who have taken cases to trial on behalf of some of the world's biggest companies.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Mr. Fox spent more than four years at Negele & Associates - a boutique litigation and trial firm located in downtown Los Angeles, California. At Negele & Associates, Mr. Fox's law practice focused on general civil litigation and trials, and he counseled clients on intellectual property issues, defamation, business disputes, contracts, real property matters, construction disputes and commercial litigation. Mr. Fox took cases to trial in the California Superior Courts, and he successfully represented clients at mediations and arbitrations in California.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Mr. Fox was an editorial board member for Los Angeles Lawyer magazine - the magazine of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. As an editorial board member, he was responsible for editing the magazine's articles and assisting in content development.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Mr. Fox earned his Juris Doctor after completing the SCALE® program at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Founded in 1911, Southwestern established the SCALE® program in 1974 as the country’s first two-year ABA-approved Juris Doctor program.

Houston, Texas Area

Mr. Fox was an Architecture Project Manager at Gensler - a global design, planning and strategic consulting firm with 33 offices on 5 continents that is consistently ranked by U.S. and international industry surveys as one of the world's best design firms. At Gensler, Mr. Fox's practice focused on managing the design of multi-million dollar commercial buildings, including "Bayou Place" in downtown Houston, Texas. His responsibilities included all aspects of architecture project management, including, but not limited to, designing creative solutions to problems, budgeting, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing design teams and engineering consultants and analyzing contract modifications.

Houston, Texas Area

Mr. Fox was an Architecture Project Manager at Cobourn Linseisen & Ratcliff, Inc. - an architecture, civil engineering and surveying firm. At CLRI, Mr. Fox's architecture practice included managing the design of multi-million dollar commercial, municipal and religious building, as well as guiding building owners on complying with the American's with Disabilities Act.

Mr. Fox worked as an actor in various productions, including television and film. In 1995-96, he worked as a photo double for actor Don Johnson in the Warner Bros. Pictures film "Tin Cup," also starring Kevin Costner, Rene Russo and Cheech Marin. Mr. Fox studied acting under Brandon Smith at Chris Wilson's Studio for Actors, and, today, he relies on his acting skills for trials and other courtroom presentations.

College Station, Texas

Mr. Fox earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design (B.E.D.) degree from Texas A&M University's Nationally-ranked College of Architecture. Established in 1905, Texas A&M’s architecture program is the oldest in Texas, and with 1,900 students, and more than 15,000 graduates, it is also the nation's largest architecture college.

Juris Doctor, Law

Activities and Societies: Interscholastic Trial Advocacy Program, Entertainment & Sports Law Society, Recipient of the CALI Excellence.

Bachelor Of Environmental Design, Architecture

Activities and Societies: Dean's ListMr. Fox earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design (B.E.D.) degree from Texas A&M University's.