Mr. Michael M. Mulder, Attorney

Michael M. Mulder has been a partner or associate with Meites, Mulder, Mollica & Glink since 1982. His practice is focused on complex federal and state court litigation. Over the years, he has conducted jury and bench trials in federal courts nationwide. He has also litigated dozens of appeals and argued before the United States Supreme Court. He is particularly experienced in handling large, complex class actions and multi-plaintiff lawsuits, including employment discrimination, pension, and employee benefits cases. In recent years, he has served as lead counsel in the Sears Retiree Life Insurance Litigation, which involved a class of over 80,000 former Sears executives and employees. He continues to serve as co-lead counsel in litigation against McDonnell-Douglas, in which he established liability on behalf of a class of 1,100 former employees in a trial that was one of the few successful ERISA plant closing cases tried in recent years. He has also negotiated dozens of severance packages for highly-placed executives at Fortune 500 companies.