Michael S. Qin

Michael is a member of KCO’s complex commercial litigation and class action defense team. Prior to joining KCO, Michael served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia and as an Honors Program Attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, worked at two nationally recognized law firms, and clerked for then-Judge Neil Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit.

Michael has participated in all stages of litigation, including drafting pleadings, briefing motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, taking depositions, and conducting witness examinations in evidentiary hearings and at trial. He also has extensive appellate experience, having filed dozens of briefs in federal and state appellate courts across the country. Michael has argued four cases in the federal courts of appeals and prevailed in all of them, two of which resulted in precedential opinions.

Michael attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude, and serving as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to law school, Michael graduated from Georgia Tech with a double major in math and computer science, both with highest honors.