Michael has obtained some of the largest plaintiff legal malpractice jury verdicts and settlements in the United States. He is certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He is included among The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Legal Malpractice Law-Plaintiff, for which he was twice named the Denver "Lawyer of the Year," first in 2015 and again for 2017. He is also the managing editor and an author of Lawyers’ Professional Liability in Colorado, 2016 Ed. (Michael T. Mihm, ed., CLE in Colorado, Inc.), a two-volume, 1,500-page treatise on legal ethics and lawyers’ professional liability.