Michael Kimberly is an associate in the Litigation and Supreme Court & Appellate practices of the Washington DC office, where his practice includes briefing and arguing appeals and dispositive trial-court motions. Since joining the firm in 2009, Michael has worked on more than 35 appeals in state and federal court, including 14 before the US Supreme Court. He has been the primary author of more than 15 briefs in matters before the federal courts of appeals and has drafted numerous briefs in support of dispositive motions in the federal district courts. Michael has argued cases in the US Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits and the District of the District of Columbia, winning favorable outcomes in each case that has been decided.

Michael maintains a generalist practice and has experience with a diverse range of subject matter, including constitutional, contract, employment, antitrust, and tort law; civil procedure, punitive damages, and federal preemption; and various federal statutes, including the Americans with Disabilities, Employee Retirement Income Security, False Claims, Family and Medical Leave, Federal Employers Liability, Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement, Rehabilitation, and Sherman Acts.

As part of his pro bono practice, Michael is actively involved with the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic, which regularly represents indigent clients in civil rights, immigration, and criminal defense matters before the US Supreme Court.

Michael received his AB, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, where he was a recipient of the Spirit of Princeton Book Prize; his MA in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania; and his JD from the Yale Law School, where he served as Editor of The Yale Law Journal and Executive Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael Daly Hawkins on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.