Michael S. Fried (Mike)
Partner

Contact

(T) +1.202.879.3434
(F) +1.202.626.1700

Education

  • Columbia University (J.D. 1995; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; James A. Elkins Prize; Editor, Columbia Law Review); University of Michigan (B.A. 1991)

Bar Admissions

  • New York and District of Columbia

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1995-1996)

Government Service

  • Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission (1998-2000)

Mike Fried represents clients in complex litigation matters, concentrating on appeals and potentially case-dispositive motions. He has extensive experience with appellate litigation and has focused, among other areas, in constitutional law, antitrust, and intellectual property. The National Law Journal has called Mike a "nimble" oral advocate, and he has argued cases at all levels of the federal judiciary, including the United States Supreme Court, a number of United States Courts of Appeals, and federal district courts.

Mike recently argued Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific in the United States Supreme Court, a significant statutory interpretation case under 28 U.S.C. section 1920 addressing the allocation of costs between the parties in civil litigation in which Jones Day's client prevailed 6-3. And he represents the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in a number of "Engle progeny" appeals in federal and Florida State appellate courts.

Mike has published articles on issues including, among others, statutory interpretation, federalism, and intellectual property. His writings have been praised by a federal court as "[p]articularly helpful in analyzing" issues relating to statutory interpretation, In re Kane, 336 F.R. 447, 485 n.16 (Bankr. D. Nev. 2006), and cited in numerous legal journals. See, e.g., Owen D. Jones & Timothy H. Goldsmith, "Law and Behavioral Biology," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 405, 483 (2005) and Jim Chen, "Judicial Epochs in Supreme Court History," 47 St. Louis U. L.J. 677, 713 (2003).


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