Mikhail Sterlin is an Associate with the firm’s Litigation Group, where he litigates on behalf of the firm's public-entity and commercial clients. He began his legal career in 2016 as a judicial law clerk in New Jersey's Middlesex Vicinage and has practiced litigation in New Jersey since 2018. Mikahil has handled matters at all stages of litigation, from initial case assessment and pleadings through discovery, motion practice, depositions, arbitration, and settlement.

His diverse range of experience includes the kinds of claims that municipalities, other public bodies, and commercial entities regularly face. He has litigated premises liability and motor vehicle collision matters, medical malpractice matters, contract disputes, insurance coverage, and business torts.   

He has also handled real estate closings and commercial transactions. Over the course of his career, he has represented clients in trial and arbitration, appeared at oral arguments, case management conferences, and arbitration hearings, took depositions of parties and witnesses, and conducted settlement negotiations.

Mikhail earned his Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School (Boston, MA) and his Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, from Suffolk University. Before law school, he worked in financial services at a mutual fund company and is fluent in both Russian and English.