Ms. Michaels joined the firm as an associate in February 2010. Her practice spans civil litigation and criminal proceedings. She is a member of the Humboldt County and California State Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California.
Ms. Michaels is a 2009 graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law (J.D.) where she served as an editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly and wrote for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. Ms. Michaels received her B.A. with honors from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA where she majored in International Relations and Spanish. She has spent time studying and living in Spain and Puerto Rico. Prior to joining the Janssen firm, she completed legal internships at the Center for Biological Diversity, the First District Appellate Project, and the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, among others. She also utilized her fluency in Spanish to work on employment and environmental litigation in Puerto Rico.
Email:
smichaels@janssenlaw.com 