Michael Migiel-Schwartz

Michael Migiel-Schwartz joined Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss in 2025. He represents unions and employees in labor and employment matters.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Migiel-Schwartz served as a law clerk for the Honorable Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Susan L. Carney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also served as the Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he assisted small-firm practitioners and lawyers for non-profit organizations with litigation at the certiorari petition stage and worked in Public Citizen’s public-interest appellate practice.

During his time in law school, Mr. Migiel-Schwartz served as a Lead Outside Articles Editor for the Harvard Law School Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Journal and wrote for the OnLabor blog. He also participated in the Employment Law Clinic, working as student attorney for Justice at Work. Mr. Migiel-Schwartz spent his first-year summer working at Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss as a Peggy Browning Fellow. He spent his second-year summer at Altshuler Berzon LLP.

Prior to law school, Mr. Migiel-Schwartz spent nearly five years working for the Strategic Organizing Center (formerly Change to Win), where he contributed research to union organizing campaigns, including the Service Employee International Union’s Fight for $15 campaign.