Michael McCabe. is the Managing Partner of McCabe Ali LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Michael has practiced IP law for over 32 years and is a registered patent attorney. Michael’s practice focuses on the intersection of IP and ethics. He has represented hundreds of patent, trademark and intellectual property practitioners in federal ethics investigations, sanctions issues, disciplinary trials, and other professional misconduct matters before the USPTO and various state bars. Michael regularly consults with lawyers and law firm management on risk management, ethics compliance, and internal investigations. He also serves as a consulting or testifying expert witness on professional conduct and malpractice issues before state and federal tribunals. Michael is the immediate past Chair of the ABA IP Section’s Professional Issues Division and a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar mandatory Ethics and Professionalism Course for new bar members.

In 2014, Michael created IPethics & INsights, an award-winning law blog focusing on ethics, malpractice and related issues in patent and trademark law. Michael earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Before law school, Michael was an engineer for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.