Michael Gottlieb, a litigator at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, won two national debate championships with Ryan Sparacino and multiple top speaker awards at Northwestern. Michael’s pro bono representation of Fulton County Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss in the defamation case against Rudy Giuliani based on his efforts to undermine the presidential election results has received national attention. Michael served as Associate Counsel to former President Barack Obama and has worked to advance the www.urbandebate.org mission for two decades.
Michael has been recognized by several leading legal and business publications, including being nominated as the American Lawyer’s 2023 Attorney of the Year, and being named by Forbes as one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers (2024), by Lawdragon 500 as one of America’s 500 Leading Lawyers (2024 and 2025) and one of its 500 Leading Litigators (2024), and being named as Litigator of the Week on several occasions by The American Lawyer. Earlier in his career, Michael was recognized as a Rising Star by National Law Journal, one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 in Washington D.C., a Law360 MVP, a Cybersecurity Trailblazer, and a Future Star by Benchmark Litigation.
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