Michael Geibelson is a Partner at Robins Kaplan LLP. Michael Geibelson is the Past Chair of the California State Bar’s Litigation Section and a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), the premier organization of U.S. real estate lawyers.
Michael is a business trial lawyer who represents individuals and businesses including retailers, restaurateurs, developers, technology and cannabis companies, and partnership participants in real estate and other business disputes involving false advertising and unfair competition, class actions, misappropriation of trade secrets, supply agreements, copyright and trademark. He frequently publishes and speaks on topics concerning litigation skills and strategies to make litigation, electronic discovery, and trial more efficient and less costly.
Michael has extensive trial experience, and has secured victories for his clients at trial in a wide range of cases: from the representation of a foreclosing lender in the termination of a lease for a state-of-the art cannabis production facility, to the decertification of a class action involving alleged privacy violations with exposure to statutory damages of more than $1 Billion, to violations of the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.
Michael is extensively involved in community and legal affairs. In addition to his work with the Litigation Section, he is a member of the Board of the Bandini Foundation (operator of the Heroes Golf Course at the West Los Angeles VA), the Advisory Board of Angel City Sports (a paralympics organization) the past chair of the Editorial Board of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, and has performed extensive pro bono work involving adoptions, environmental issues and small business disputes.
