Mike was awarded the 2022 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. An awards ceremony was held on July 12, 2023, presided over by Justice Bary T. Albin, Chair of the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law.
Mike is an active member in the Burlington County Bar Association, he is a former Chair of the Bar Associations’ Criminal Practice Committee, and served for eight years as a member of the Supreme Court of New Jersey District Ethics Committee for Burlington County, District III-B. Mike also served two years as Councilman for Ward 3 in Delran Township, having been elected to the post in the November 2018 general election. Mike currently serves as the Chair of the Delran Township Zoning Board.
Mike served a clerkship for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Office of the Disciplinary Counsel, from 1999 – 2000, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 2001, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 2001, and the Supreme Court of the United States in 2014.
For over eleven years, Mike served as a Burlington County Assistant Prosecutor, gaining a wealth of experience in criminal law drawn from assignments to the Appellate Unit, The Grand Jury Unit, the Trial Unit, and the Special Victims Unit. In the last two years of his tenure with the Prosecutor’s Office, Mike served as the Section Chief of the Special Victims Unit.
Between 2001 and 2010, Mike served as an instructor at the Burlington County Police Academy, teaching various topics related to criminal law and criminal investigations, including Title 2C and Search and Seizure law. He has also given lectures on the topic of Search and Seizure law to the In-Service Program for Law Enforcement, the New Jersey Homicide Investigator’s Association, and the Burlington County Bar Association.
Since joining Attorneys Hartman, Mike has handled cases in The United States District Court for the State of New Jersey, The New Jersey Superior Court - Law and Appellate Divisions, The Office of Administrative Law, The New Jersey Department of Labor, The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, and many, many Municipal Courts. Mike has also argued at the departmental level for various civil service employees and law enforcement officers in the context of disciplinary hearings in local jurisdictions throughout New Jersey.