Overview
Michael A. Hill joined Spangenberg, Shibley and Liber LLP as an attorney in 2011. Michael graduated magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2011, where he served as Contributing Editor of the Law Review. Michael has long had an interest in constitutional law and the protection of civil rights. As Editor of the Law Review, Michael was fortunate to publish The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: The Need for A Whistleblower Exception, 61 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 649 (2011) and United States v. Fullmer and The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: “True Threats” to Free Speech, 61 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 981 (2011), each of which concerns the appropriate First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied to content-based regulations of speech and symbolic conduct in particular settings.
Prior to joining the firm as an attorney, Michael worked at Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber as a law clerk. During his time with the firm, Michael has gained valuable, firsthand experience in state and federal civil rights litigation and has actively participated in cases involving police excessive force, deprivation of medical care to prisoners and pretrial detainees, and violations of the Ohio and Federal Civil Rights Act, including suits involving sex and gender, age, and disability discrimination.
In addition to vigorously advocating on behalf of his clients, Michael is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Ohio Association for Justice, and the American Association for Justice.
WHY SPANGENBERG?
When people ask why they should choose Spangenberg, the short answer is that you won't find a more experienced, more accomplished and more knowledgeable group of attorneys anywhere else. In addition to being among the most highly decorated, accomplished, and recognized attorneys in the State of Ohio and throughout the country, our attorneys are passionate about representing plaintiffs. Our firm has the resources and wherewithal of a sophisticated large firm, but with the sensibilities and personal service of a small office or personal counsel. As true trial lawyers, our firm can handle any type of case.
Spangenberg Shibley & Liber is a boutique civil litigation trial firm in downtown Cleveland, Ohio handling cases on a statewide and nationwide basis. The firm's trial practice is diverse and sophisticated. It includes a wide array of consumer healthcare issues including medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, health insurance claim denials, dangerous drugs, and defective medical devices. In addition to its consumer health care litigation practice, Spangenberg lawyers represent individuals who have been seriously injured or killed in motor vehicle accidents, on the job, through exposure to dangerous chemicals/mold, by defective consumer and household products such as automobiles, motorcycles and power tools, tainted food and many other situations. The firm also represents those who have been injured or harmed by law enforcement engaged in the violation of a citizen's civil rights.
Apart from its personal injury practice, Spangenberg has a committed consumer rights practice litigating claims of marketing fraud, deceptive business practices, and violation of warranty for all sorts of consumer products.
Finally, Spangenberg Shibley & Liber represents businesses and entrepreneurs for all types of business litigation situations where the individual or business has been wronged in a business transaction.
