Background
Bien, Michael W. was born on December 22, 1955 in New York City. Son of Morris and Ruth (Fisch) Bien.
Bien, Michael W. was born on December 22, 1955 in New York City. Son of Morris and Ruth (Fisch) Bien.
Brandeis University (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 1977). Northwestern University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1980).
Worked at Rosen, Bien & Asaro (San Francisco, California) specializing in Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Commercial Litigation. Business Law. Criminal Appeals.
Civil Rights, Employment, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Antitrust, Environmental, Attorney"s Fees.
Admitted to the bar, 1981, California. Author: "Litigation as an Antitrust Violation: Conflict Between the First Amendment and the Sherman Acting," 16 University of San Francisco Law Review 41, 1981.
Company-author: "The Noerr-Pennington Doctrine," American Bar Association Antitrust Section, Monograph Number. 19, 1993. Litigation Associate and Partner, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, 1980-1990.
Early Settlement Program and Pro Tem Judge, San Francisco Superior Court, 1993.
Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1994. Member, Mediator Panel and Early Neutral Evaluation Panel, United States. District Court, Northern District of California, 1994.
Rosen, Bien and Asaro has a unique practice blending public interest and private sector litigation.
The firm specializes in complex trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts in the areas of civil rights, First Amendment, employment, environmental, attorney fees, and consumer litigation as well as commercial litigation in the areas of contract, business tort, antitrust, trade secrets, securities, intellectual property and unfair trade practices.
Member of the board of managers Mission Young Men’s Christian Association, San Francisco, 1983-1985, chairman 1985-1989. Board directors Metropolitan Young Men’s Christian Association, San Francisco, 1985-1989, Brandeis-Hillel Day School 1990-1996. Fellow American Bar Foundation.
Member American Civil Liberties Union, American Bar Association (antitrust section), Bar Association San Francisco (chairman judicial committee 1989), State Bar California (member of commission corrections 1987-1990).
Married Jane Ellen Kahn, September 3, 1978. Children: Benjamin, Max Jacob, Joseph Morris.