Michael J. FitzGerald
 Michael J. FitzGerald is one of the founding partners of Barnes,
Crosby, FitzGerald & Zeman. Mr. FitzGerald focuses his practice
on business and commercial litigation in the state and federal
courts. He has successfully represented numerous clients and
tried dozens of jury trials encompassing a broad range of issues
in all manner of business disputes, including breach of contract,
partnership and corporate disputes, unfair competition, fraud,
real estate litigation, business torts, estate litigation, insurance
coverage litigation, and collections. Most recently, Mr. FitzGerald
represented Advertisement Banners.com, Inc. in a business tort and
contract dispute in Orange County Superior Court that received
national and international press coverage, obtaining a jury verdict
in that case in excess of $6.5 million.
Mr. FitzGerald was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1976,
and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the
Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California and the U.S.
Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar
Association, the Orange County Bar Association (Litigation Section),
the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Association of Business
Trial Lawyers, and the American Inns of Court. He has also served
as a past president of the Irvine Chamber of Commerce, and a moot
court judge for the University of San Francisco Law School.
Mr. FitzGerald received his B.A. from California State University
(1973) and earned his J.D. from the University of San Francisco
(1976).
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