Michael D. Seplow, Partner

Michael D. Seplow is a partner at Schonbrun Seplow Harris Hoffman & Zeldes, LLP where his practice focuses on civil rights and employment litigation. Mr. Seplow has been litigating police misconduct cases since 1992 and has been actively involved in several successful civil rights cases, including a case in which a mentally disabled Los Angeles resident was wrongfully imprisoned in New York State for two years, which resulted in a published decision (Lee v. City of Los Angeles, 250 F.3d 668 (9th Cir. 2001)) and a $3.75 million settlement.

Mr. Seplow is a 1990 graduate of UCLA School of Law and received his A.B Degree from Duke University in 1985. He has taught as an adjunct professor at UC Irvine School of Law from 2014-2017, teaching civil rights litigation (2014-2017) and is presently teaching an appellate litigation clinic..

Mr. Seplow has been named as a "Super Lawyer" from 2004-2022 by Los Angeles Magazine. For his work on the appeal before the California Supreme Court in the case of B.B v. County of Los Angeles, 10 Cal. 5th 1 (2020) Mr. Seplow (as well as his co-counsel) received the California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) Award for 2020 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal in March 2021 and the 2021 Streetfighter of the Year Award by the Consumer Attorneys of California.

Mr. Seplow is a member of various professional organizations, including the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP), the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Associate	Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt	Los Angeles, CA	1990-1992
Judicial Extern	The Hon. Abner Mikva, United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit		1989

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1990
Duke University	A.B.		1985.

State / Court	Date
California	1990
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
U.S. District Court Central District of California
U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court Northern District of California
U.S. District Court Southern District of California

• Los Angeles County Bar Association
  Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
  California Employment Lawyers Association

• Punishing Pundits: People v. Dyleski and the Gag Order as Prior Restraint in High-Profile Cases Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 2007 [Vol. 39:1195] (co-authored with Paul Hoffman)