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Michael Strumwasser
Partner  

                                                                                        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 consults for officials across the nation on insurance-regulation. He has represented numerous public agencies and officials and advises various California agencies on government-law matters.  He advises and represents school-district clients in school-finance, insurance, and constitutional matters.

 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.

Mr. Strumwasser has appeared in the U.S. and California Supreme Courts and regularly litigates a wide range of constitutional and public-policy cases throughout the trial and appellate courts. He holds A.B., M.S., and J.D. degrees from UCLA.