Michael R. Doyen

In 2015, Mr. Doyen was among the attorneys recognized with a California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award for his successful defense of Transocean.

Mr. Doyen represents international corporations, corporate officers and national and international law firms in major criminal and civil matters in the United States, Central and South America and Europe. He has worked in cases involving large-scale disasters, financial and otherwise: from the collapse of the nuclear industry, the junk bond market and the savings & loan crisis in the 1980s to the dot-com bubble, financial meltdown and Gulf Coast hurricanes and oil spill of the early 21st century.

Mr. Doyen specializes in criminal and regulatory investigations and related civil litigation; he handles all phases, formal and informal, from the earliest days of an investigation through trial. He also represents law firms and lawyers in malpractice and malpractice actions (and, occasionally, in criminal matters). Most of his law firm clients would prefer their names not be mentioned here.

Mr. Doyen has worked on many matters touching on warfare, from libel and reporting to war crimes. Mr. Doyen speaks and writes about strategic issues and the nature of litigation; he has served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School and is (eternally) trying to finish a book on war and litigation.