Michele joined Reed Smith in 2011. Michele manages a team of nearly 50 experienced attorneys in the firm's Staff Attorney Group. The staff attorneys provide legal services to many Reed Smith clients, including several major banks, financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, retailers and other large corporations. The staff attorneys support numerous litigation matters, with heightened emphasis on commercial disputes, financial services, and labor and employment. The staff attorneys also perform transactional work for Reed Smith clients across multiple industries, such as commercial real estate, pharmaceutical, retail, finance and corporate governance.
Michele's practice focuses on financial services and banking litigation. Michele has handled matters involving diverse areas of litigation, including Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Truth in Lending Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Uniform Commercial Code, contract law, tort law and personal injury. Michele has extensive experience with individual mortgage loan, auto loan and consumer banking actions and has supported hundreds of such cases pending in Pennsylvania and throughout the U.S.
Prior to joining Reed Smith, Michele provided legal advice and services to individual litigants in various fields, including bankruptcy, civil and criminal litigation, workers' compensation, social security, and unemployment compensation.
