His law firm is Dodd & Batla, P.C. In addition, Michael is an adjunct lecturer in the MBA program at the University of Texas at Austin. In that capacity, he teaches the International Business Fellows Seminar. The IBFS is a multi-disciplinary course that brings together graduate students and faculty from the Business School, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and other graduate programs at UT Austin to study events and forces re-shaping the world and to consider the implications of such changes. Michael has served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Global Business for several years.