MICHAEL J. STRUMWASSER has litigated some of California's largest constitutional, governmental, and consumer-protection cases on behalf of public officials and agencies and public-interest groups.  He is a nationally-recognized authority on insurance- and utility-regulation, having successfully represented consumers and regulators in state and federal courts and agencies and before Congress and the California Legislature. He was lead counsel for the California Insurance Commissioner, developing regulations to implement Proposition 103 and successfully defending the program against numerous industry challenges.

 Mr. Strumwasser co-founded Strumwasser & Woocher after seventeen years with the California Department of Justice, the last eight years as Special Assistant Attorney General, where he handled some of the state's most important antitrust, consumer-protection, and environmental cases, including California's challenges to major supermarket and oil-company mergers, defended consumer interests in utility-rate litigation, and represented the Governor of California in Nuclear Regulatory Commission health-and-safety reviews.