Michael A. Munoz

Associate
Munoz Michael

Mike Munoz brings to his regulatory practice experience with all stages of litigation involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Lanham Act, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement actions, and other consumer class actions. Working on advertising and marketing issues vital to brand protection, Mike navigates challenges and anticipates needs to protect his clients and their businesses. During law school, Mike served as a law clerk to Senator John Thune (R-SD) as chairman of the Senate Committee for Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where he focused on issues pertaining to consumer protection, product safety, and data security, as well as oversight of the FTC and Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Member of a team that defended one of the nation’s largest residential and commercial security monitoring companies in putative class actions in Illinois, Tennessee, and West Virginia federal courts, variously alleging that the companies were either directly or vicariously liable for autodialed marketing and non-telemarketing calls and text messages, and prerecorded message calls placed or sent without the plaintiffs’ consent, as well as claims for purported calls to telephone numbers registered on the National Do Not Call Registry
  • Member of a team that defended a national cable television news network in a putative class action alleging the receipt of unsolicited autodialed telemarketing calls and calls to telephone numbers registered on the National Do Not Call Registry; plaintiff voluntarily dismissed her case with prejudice (and without settlement)
  • Member of a team that defended an affiliate marketing network in a putative class action in Arkansas federal court, alleging that it was vicariously liable for unsolicited text messages marketing marijuana products

Insights

Credentials
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Education

  • J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 2017
    • President, The Georgetown Law Federalist Society
    • Student fellow, Center for the Constitution
    • Law clerk, Office of Senator John Thune, United States Senate
  • B.S. Legal Studies Becker College 2013

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Clerk Experience

  • Honorable Deborah A. Robinson U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia