Michael R. Sklaire focuses his practice on government investigations, business crimes, and financial litigation and regulation. He has wide-ranging experience as a trial lawyer, including more than 11 years with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He handles jury trials, non-jury trials and arbitrations, both domestic and international. Michael represents corporations and executives before federal grand juries, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and other government agencies. He also provides corporate compliance advice and conducts internal investigations in matters relating to procurement fraud and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Michael is frequently quoted in national publications as having wide-ranging experience handling public corruption, securities fraud and parallel civil and criminal investigations. He has published numerous articles and frequently lectures on a variety of legal issues.

Michael’s commercial litigation practice focuses primarily on assisting clients in the financial services industry including local and national banks, consumer finance companies and mortgage bankers. He has provided valuable litigation assistance to corporate clients on issues relating to consumer fraud, identity theft, predatory lending and the securitization of mortgages, including successful representation of corporate clients before federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Michael is licensed to practice in the federal and states courts in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he is the Immediate Past Chair of the Federal Bar Association's Criminal Law Section, and is a member of the Criminal Justice Section of the District of Columbia Bar.

Prior to joining the firm, Michael worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Connecticut where he was assigned to the Organized Crime Task Force. In that position, he prosecuted the mayor of Connecticut's largest city on bribery and racketeering charges. Prior to that, Michael was assigned to the Criminal Division of the DOJ from which he supervised and prosecuted complex investigations in the Western District of Texas, Southern District of California and Northern District of Illinois.

During his time with the U.S. Department of Justice, Michael was presented the U.S. Attorney's award for Superior Performance in 2004 and the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award in 1997. In addition, he has been profiled as one of Virginia’s top attorneys in the "Legal Elite" by Virginia Business magazine.