Robert Michael

Robert R. Michael is a partner at Shadoan, Michael & Wells, LLP in Rockville, Maryland, where he represents people and families harmed by medical negligence, catastrophic accidents and aviation crashes, including wrongful death claims. He has practiced for more than five decades and leads the firm’s aviation accident work, drawing on more than 40 years as a licensed multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot.

Michael earned his law degree from The George Washington University School of Law in 1971. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a past president of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, the Montgomery County Bar Association and the Montgomery County Bar Foundation, and he was the founding attorney president of the Montgomery County Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He has also served on the Maryland Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.

His reported results include a $15 million verdict in a helicopter crash case and Federal Tort Claims Act verdicts against the United States of $15 million, $8 million and $4 million in medical malpractice cases. He edited Maryland Tort Damages for more than 10 years and lectured at the Maryland Judicial College for more than 20 years. Through the Trial Lawyers Care program, he represented a survivor of the Sept. 11 Pentagon attack without charge. Outside the office, he has served as a church deacon and moderator and has led medical and mission relief teams to Louisiana, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.