McCabe, Jr., Michael

Michael McCabe. is the Managing Partner of McCabe Ali LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.  Michael has practiced IP law for 32 years and is a registered patent attorney. Michael’s practice focuses on the intersection of IP and ethics.  He has represented hundreds of patent, trademark and intellectual property practitioners, in addition to law firms, students, in-house counsel and government employees in federal ethics investigations, sanctions issues, disciplinary trials, and other professional misconduct matters before the USPTO and various state bars.  Michael regularly consults with lawyers and law firm management on risk management, ethics compliance, and internal investigations. He has served as an expert witness on professional conduct issues before state and federal tribunals.  Michael is the current Chair of the ABA IP Section’s Professional Issues Division and is a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar mandatory Ethics and Professionalism Course.  In 2014, Michael created IPethics & INsights, an award-winning law blog focusing on ethics, malpractice and related issues in patent and trademark law. Michael earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law.  Before law school, Michael was an engineer for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.