Michael W. Stocker represents clients in commercial litigation, with a primary focus on sophisticated antitrust and securities class action matters. His work in the area of antitrust class actions has been recognized in The National Law Journal's 2008 Plaintiffs' Hot List.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Stocker worked as a senior staff attorney with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and completed a legal externship with United States Magistrate Judge (now District Judge) Phyllis J. Hamilton of the Northern District of California.

Mr. Stocker is the co-author of the following articles: "Tellabs: PSLRA Pleading Test Comparative, Not Absolute," New York Law Journal, October 3, 2007, "Analysis of Abbott Laboratories Antitrust Litigation," Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report, June 20, 2008, "Key to Avoiding Compensation Suits," Financial Executive, July/August 2008, and "Eyeing Executive Compensation," The National Law Journal, November 17, 2008.

Mr. Stocker has served on the boards of the University of California San Francisco’s AIDS Health Project and AIDS Benefits Counselors, and has worked for the Immigrant HIV Assistance Project and the Volunteer Legal Services Program in San Francisco as well as Legal Assistance for Seniors in Oakland, California.

Mr. Stocker earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, in 1995, and a Master of Criminology degree from the Law Department of the University of Sydney in 2000. He is admitted to practice in California and New York as well as before the United States District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits.