Michael Mihm’s unique trial practice focuses on plaintiff-side legal malpractice, commercial, and personal injury litigation. He is admitted to practice in California and Colorado, but represents clients in courtrooms nationwide. Michael has obtained some of the largest plaintiff legal malpractice jury verdicts and settlements in the United States, and many multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in commercial and personal injury litigation. Michael is a co-founder of Ogborn Mihm, LLP, and practices from both the Denver and Los Angeles offices. He is one of the few plaintiffs' attorneys in the United States to be certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Michael is included among The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Commercial Litigation and, also, Legal Malpractice Law-Plaintiff, for which he was three times named the Denver "Lawyer of the Year" (first in 2015, again in 2017, and again for 2019). In 2018, Michael was named by Colorado Super Lawyers® magazine as of one of Colorado’s “Top 100” lawyers. Michael is a Past President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, the largest specialty bar organization in Colorado. Michael has been inducted as member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He is a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyer’s College in Dubois, Wyoming.
Michael has prosecuted or defended hundreds of legal malpractice lawsuits, has tried many such cases to verdict, and has also served as an expert witness in many such lawsuits. Since 2005, Michael has served as an author and managing editor of Lawyers' Professional Liability in Colorado, 2017 Ed. (Michael T. Mihm ed., CLE in Colorado, Inc., 2017). This two-volume, 57-chapter treatise, updated annually, focuses on lawyers' professional liability and legal ethics issues.
Michael's legal malpractice clients are usually companies or business people. Michael’s referrals generally come from in-house counsel or outside general counsel who, often, are addressing intractable problems caused by the client’s former outside counsel. Because Michael also has a substantial business litigation practice, he brings a sophistication to legal malpractice problems born of many years of litigation experience in many industries. Michael’s legal malpractice cases often involve underlying business or real estate transactions, but also include tax law, estate planning, intellectual property law, patent law, land use law, securities law, and many other matters.
Michael also has a significant business and corporate litigation practice. Michael’s business litigation cases often arise from breach of contract disputes, corporate control, oil and gas transactions, real estate disputes, oppression of minority business owners, partnership disputes, theft of trade secrets, intellectual property disputes, computer fraud, and claims arising from breaches of fiduciary duty and other misconduct by company insiders.
Michael also personally tries select medical malpractice, wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases.
