Michaela Firmage focuses her practice on complex civil litigation, intellectual property disputes, and white-collar criminal defense. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, she earned her law degree from UCLA School of Law. During law school, Michaela worked in the UCLA Prisoners’ Rights Clinic, where she successfully argued as a student attorney a civil rights case in front of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served as head of research to the faculty director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program and served as an extern for Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was editor of UCLA Law Review and the Dukeminier Awards Journal. She earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, where she studied political science.