Michael L. Huang

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center

B.S., University of Michigan

Clerkship

Hon. Erik P. Christian, Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Admissions

District of Columbia

New York

U.S. District Court: District of Columbia

U.S. Supreme Court

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(202) 204-8479

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Michael Huang is a partner at TPM and practices environmental and civil rights litigation.

Mr. Huang has expertise in environmental laws such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA). For over ten years, he has been counsel for environmental groups in Raritan Baykeeper v. NL Industries, a suit seeking a remedial investigation and cleanup of sediments in the Raritan River in Sayreville, New Jersey. More information about the case is available here.

Mr. Huang also has experience litigating statutory and constitutional class actions, where he has developed expertise in access-to-justice issues such as justiciability and fee-shifting. He recently briefed and argued the appeal in Maldonado v. District of Columbia (opinion here), which held in favor of his clients that a class action challenging the government’s failure to provide Medicaid beneficiaries with due process was not moot.

In 2023, Mr. Huang was appointed by the President of the American Bar Association to a three-year term as the D.C. Circuit representative for the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which provides the White House, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the public with impartial evaluations of the professional qualifications of federal judicial nominees. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Huang served as a member of the Nominations Committee for the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area (APABA-DC). He has also served as Co-Chair of the APABA-DC Policy and Advocacy Committee and on the Board of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund. In 2019, he received APABA-DC’s Rising Star Award.

Mr. Huang earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan in 2002 and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2007, where he was Notes Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal.

Prior to joining TPM, Mr. Huang practiced public interest litigation at a non-profit where he co-authored briefs on behalf of state and local government organizations as amicus curiae in the United States Supreme Court. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Erik P. Christian of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.