MICHAEL J. 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 litigated some of the state’s largest 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 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 California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, developing his regulations to implement Proposition 103 and successfully defending the program against numerous industry challenges.

Mr. Strumwasser advises and consults for officials across the nation on economic regulation. He has represented numerous public agencies and officials and advises various California public agencies on government-law matters.

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 on behalf of public and private clients. He holds A.B., M.S., and J.D. degrees from UCLA.

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