Michael W. Green

Mike only represents plaintiffs and has achieved some of the highest recoveries on record on behalf of his clients in the North Bay area counties and in the State of California in certain practice areas. In 2024, Mike was lead counsel in a medical malpractice case that resulted in a jury verdict of $26.2 million for his client. Some of Mikes other results include obtaining $37.7 million in a blended personal injury and wrongful death case; $25 million in a wrongful death case; $10.4 million in a trucking accident case, and $6.2 million in a civil rights case. Mike has been lead trial counsel in jury trials taken to verdict in wrongful death cases, personal injury cases, product liability cases, employment cases, premises liability cases, medical malpractice cases, government entity liability cases, and dog bite cases. Mike specializes in litigating serious injury and wrongful death cases. He has extensive experience handling cases involving personal injury, product liability, automotive defect/crashworthiness, medical malpractice, elder abuse, civil rights, fire claims, insurance bad faith as well as government entity liability. Mikes practice also focuses on representing property owners, both residential and commercial, in construction defect matters. He has successfully represented hundreds of homeowners and businesses in Northern California seeking recovery for defective construction of their homes and buildings. Mike teaches trial practice to law students at a local law school. Education University of Denver College of Law (J. D., 2000)University of Arizona (B. A., 1996)Admitted California (2001)U. S. Federal Court Northern District of California (2001)U. S. Federal Court Eastern District of California (2007)U. S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2001)Honors & Awards Forty Under 40 Recipient (2009): Selected by North Bay Business Journal as one of the forty exceptional business leaders under forty years of age in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa Counties. Northern California Super Lawyer - Since 2011 Affiliations Law Professor Empire College Trial Practice Consumer Attorneys of Sonoma County (President 2009, 2010)American Inns of Court (Richard M. Sangster Chapter)Sonoma County Bar Association (Member - Real Property Section)Consumer Attorneys of California Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member - Birth Trauma Section)State Bar of California (Member - Litigation Section)Awards & Recognitions Recipient of the 2021 & 2022 Sonoma Magazine Lawyers of Distinction Award News & Publications Jury Awards Nearly $1 Million to Victim of 2019 Dog Mauling County Reaches $2 Million Settlement in Federal Lawsuit Over 2015 Jail Suicide County of Lake Reaches $4.5 Million Settlement in Lakeside Heights Lawsuit Generation to Generation