Mickey joined Gilbert LLP as an associate in August 2010.  His practice includes representing corporate clients in both federal and state courts in complex litigation involving insurance coverage and other commercial disputes.

Representative matters at Gilbert LLP include:

• representing a major auto parts manufacturer in complex litigation over insurance coverage for bodily injury claims;

• successfully settling coverage of mass tort and property damage claims on behalf of a 524(g) trust; and


• advised a 501(c)(3) organization on the renewal of its insurance coverage.

Prior to joining Gilbert LLP, Mickey was an associate in the litigation department at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP from 2007-2009, where he represented a sovereign in a bilateral investment treaty arbitration against a large investment bank that culminated in a favorable settlement for the client.  From August 2009 – August 2010, he was a Simpson Thacher Public Service Fellow at the Victory Fund, where he served as Assistant General Counsel and assisted in their successful effort to increase the number of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in appointed positions in the executive and judicial branches of the federal government.

Mickey continues his active pro bono practice at Gilbert.  Working with other attorneys at the firm, he drafted a brief on behalf of several national civil rights and bar organizations in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America, urging the 9th Circuit to uphold the ruling that the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is unconstitutional.  Past pro bono work includes representation of death row inmates in Connecticut and Missouri and filing a brief on behalf of book publishers in the reargument before the Supreme Court of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Community Activities

Ayuda, Board of Directors, Vice Chair
Victory Campaign Board, Member
Esperanza Education Fund, Scholarship Committee

• American Bar Association
• American Society of International Law
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association

• Lloyd N. Cutler Scholarship, Yale Law School (2004-2007)
• Simpson Thacher Public Service Fellow (2009-2010)

• Illinois Appeals Court Reaffirms Zurich v. Raymark, Strengthens All Sums Precedent Under Illinois Law, We've Got You Covered - Insurance Law Blog, March 19, 2013
• Importance Of Procuring Cybersecurity Insurance Coverage, Law360, June 29, 2012
• Sovereign Impunity: Does the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Bar Lawsuits Against the Holy See in Clerical Sexual Abuse Cases?, 44 Tex. Int’l L.J. 123, 131 (2008)

• Maryland Family Files Lawsuit Against Federal Government Claims CIA Murdered Their Father and Lied about Its Involvement, November 28, 2012