Law 2025: SKLAIRE, MICHAEL R.

A litigator, Sklaire focuses on government investigations, civil fraud cases, and financial services litigation and regulation at Greenberg Traurig, a global law firm with more than 2,850 attorneys in 49 offices.

Sklaire represents corporations and executives before federal agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.

Earlier this year, Sklaire served as part of a team representing Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, a former federal prosecutor who went before a hearing committee of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility for allegations of manipulating evidence in cases of people arrested at President Donald Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.

Previously, Sklaire worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut’s Organized Crime Task Force. He was also a special assistant to the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of California and the Western District of Texas.

A graduate of the American University Washington College of Law, Sklaire previously shared the duties of running the Northern Virginia office with Laura Foote Reiff, who stepped down from that role this year.

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