Overview
Michelle focuses his practice on personal injury and toxic tort litigation. With a background synthesizing complex civil, criminal, and regulatory actions, and conducting factual investigations, Michelle advises clients regarding product liability, mass tort, and energy litigation related matters. He has experience with NAESB contract interpretation issues, scope of casualty to real property amid global pandemics, special relationships between insureds and insurers, the limits of a bankruptcy court’s authority to compel arbitration of adversary proceedings, arbitration appellate standards of review, and choice-of-law issues.
Prior to joining the firm, Michelle was a law clerk for the Honorable Dee D. Drell in the US District Court of the Western District of Louisiana and interned for the Honorable James L. Dennis in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. While in law school, he served on the administrative board of the moot court program, coached the Thurgood Marshall Appellate Team to a national championship, and earned Tulane Law’s top appellate advocacy award for two consecutive years. Michelle also earned the Cullen R. Liskow Award for Outstanding Performance in Oil & Gas Law and received the Dean Donald R. Moore Crest Award for his leadership and service to the law school community.
Before law school, Michelle taught high school math for seven years in New Orleans public schools.
Affiliations
Professional
- Recent Alumni Council Member, Tulane University School of Professional Advancement
- American Bar Association
- Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association
- Dartmouth Club of Houston
- Dartmouth Lawyers Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association
- Morehouse College National Alumni Association
- NAACP
- National LGBT+ Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- Texas Young Lawyers Association
- Tulane Club of Houston
Education
JD, Tulane University Law School, The Order of Barristers, 2022
MLA, Tulane University, Golden Key International Honour Society, 2019
AB, Dartmouth College, 2012
Admissions
Texas
District of Columbia
Courts
US District Court, Southern District of Texas
US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Languages
- French
- Portuguese