About Mike
Mike Brown is a partner in the firm’s Litigation group. Mike has practiced in the Lake Tahoe area for over 25 years, and his practice encompasses the full range of complex environmental, commercial, construction and real estate litigation. Mike’s litigation experience includes the representation of groundwater management agencies, agribusiness companies, large housing companies, real estate investment trusts, developers, contractors and businesses in real estate and administrative law matters, and in real property and business litigation in state and federal courts. This includes the litigation of claims for breach of contract, fraud, nuisance and trespass, diversion of surface water, partition of real property, inverse condemnation, products liability, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of the Sherman Act and Cartwright Act, and unfair competition.
Mike’s recent courtroom successes include a multimillion-dollar settlement on the second day of trial in October 2017 of a real estate dispute on behalf of a large international developer/homebuilder in an action filed in Placer County. In 2018, Mike successfully defended a cotton merchant client in an international arbitration against a $300 million claim under the Sherman Act and obtained an award of over $3 million in attorneys’ fees and costs. This case was recognized as one of the top verdicts in 2018 by the California Daily Journal.
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