Roger E. Michener
Corporate Law; Technology Licensing and Commercialization; Litigation

Roger E. Michener practices with Peacock Myers, P.C., in the area of licensing of intellectual property and business transactions. In addition to extensive business and corporate law experience, he has expertise in business litigation. Roger is a licensed attorney in New Mexico, New York, District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Roger Michener holds both Ph.D. and J.D. degrees from The University of Chicago. Prior to legal practice, he had an academic career of research and teaching at The University of Chicago, Princeton University, and the Law Faculty of Tokyo University in the areas of comparative public and private law and legal history and philosophy. He has given nearly one hundred public lectures and seminars at institutes and universities in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. He has written scholarly contributions to jurisprudence, comparative law, and constitutional law.

Following graduation from The University of Chicago Law School and completion of a Federal judicial clerkship, Roger Michener began the full-time practice of law with an international law firm in New York City. There, Roger worked on both litigation and corporate matters, and was involved in major transactions involving securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and IPOs in the insurance and utilities industries, hi-tech start-ups, international privatizations, international trade and foreign investment matters, and major anti-trust actions. Other commercial matters involved banking, creditors' rights, FIRREA, bankruptcy, tax, employment, construction, civil RICO, commercial fraud, environmental, and issues of intellectual property, technology development and transfer.

As a transactional lawyer Roger has handled substantial commercial matters, worked as part of a team of lawyers on utilities privatizations, on insurance demutualizations, and on restructuring the insurance and utilities industries. He handled trade and finance matters in international practice, helped to resolve an international border dispute, and undertook a broad range of transactional and regulatory matters.

As a commercial and civil litigator, Roger has been involved in a wide variety of actions, in both tort and contract. He has litigated securities class actions, employment matters, commercial fraud including product diversion and fraudulent conveyances, insurance coverage, products liability, tort immunity, intellectual property infringement, tax, and anti-trust actions. In addition to a trial practice, he has appeared before regulatory and administrative bodies, and worked on appeals before the New York Court of Appeals, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, the New Jersey Supreme Court, and a number of federal appellate courts, including the D.C. Court of Appeals. His clients have included some of the largest corporations in regulated industries, including insurance, banking, telecommunications, and utilities and energy producers; clients have also included healthcare, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and aerospace companies, as well as public officials and municipalities.