Michael E. Longo
Partner
Michael E. Longo defends and provides strategic litigation and transactional counsel to Fortune 500 companies, leading insurers, small businesses, and individuals around the country. With a mastery of complex legal issues, a record of creative problem-solving, and around-the-clock availability, Mike is someone on whom clients come to rely when the stakes are highest; they call on him to parachute into urgent matters, often in the face of looming mediations, trials, and other deadlines.
Mike’s litigation experience is extensive and wide-ranging. He has successfully defended copyright, trademark, municipal, employment, educational, commercial, construction, and bodily injury claims in state and federal courts and on appeal. He defends complex insurance coverage and bad faith claims ranging from automobile accidents to billion-dollar demands on nine-figure coverage towers. Mike also has significant experience in overseeing and coordinating fraud investigations pertaining to automobile accident claims and leading special investigative units (SIU), and he regularly defends no-fault, uninsured/underinsured motorist (UM/UIM), and liability claims.
As a transactional attorney, Mike provides strategic advice concerning intellectual property and risk management to both individual and institutional clients in a variety of sectors. He routinely advises on the retention of insurance policies and management of copyright and trademark portfolios, and provides targeted advice on defamation and publicity/privacy concerns.
Mike is a former educator and an artist and filmmaker who has worked on numerous film sets and in the commercial art industry.
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Honors & Awards
Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: AV Preeminent
Most Involved Member Award, Dade County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section Professionalism Committee, 2008
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2006
- Member of University of Miami Business Law Review
- Research assistant focusing on copyright and communications law
- Student Bar Association Senator
- Law school’s representative to the University of Miami Trustees’ Student Affairs Committee
- Syracuse University, B.F.A., cum laude, 2001
- Mike earned a degree in film production, history, and theory
Community Involvement
- LegalArt Miami: Volunteer Clinic Instructor
- Florida Bar Grievance Committee 11N, 2014–16
Publications & Events
- “‘Angry Birds’ Maker Sues Key Biscayne Company,” Daily Business Review, October 30, 2013
- “New PIP Bill May Provide Change, but Not Overnight,” Daily Business Review, April 16, 2013
- “Personal Injury Protection (PIP) Reform — Why Change Won’t Happen Overnight,” Claims Journal, March 26, 2013
- “Justices to Decide if Insurers Can Require Examinations,” Daily Business Review, April 6, 2012
Mike frequently lectures and presents on insurance, intellectual property, and general-liability issues to a wide range of businesses, schools, and nonprofit groups. His presentations include:
- “Professional Practices: Copyright for the Illustrator,” Parsons School of Design, May 2, 2018
- “Professional Practices: Copyright for the Illustrator,” Parsons School of Design, April 19, 2017
- “Professional Practices: Copyright for the Illustrator,” Parsons School of Design, April 20, 2016
- “Continuing Legal Education: Handling Florida Personal Injury Protection Claims,” PGCS, Lake Mary, FL, March 25, 2016
- “Copyright for the Photographer,” University of Florida, April 4, 2014
- “Handling Florida PIP and Bad Faith Claims,” David Morse & Associates, July 19, 2013
- “Business for Film Artists: Copyright Law for the Filmmaker,” Syracuse University, April 3, 2013
- Co-Presenter, “Bad Faith: 2019 Year in Review,” GS Webinar Series, January 21, 2020
- Co-Presenter, “Year in Review: Bad Faith,” GIS Webinar, December 11, 2018
- Contributor, “What Happens in New York Stays in New York,” Timely Notice, January 3, 2019