About Us

Before leaving to run Praktio full time, Michael was the founding director of the Transactional Lab & Clinic, an experiential program at the University of Michigan Law School, through which students worked on transactional matters, under faculty supervision, for large, mature organizations around the world (e.g., Pepsi, Aon, NPR) and small, local organizations around the Law School.

At Michigan Law, Michael also taught other contracts, business, and transactional law classes. Among other activities, Michael served as Chair of the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education for 2018 and as Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Teaching Methods for 2018.

Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty, Michael was a Lecturer in Law and the Executive Director of the Corporate Lab Transactional Clinic, which he co-founded, at the University of Chicago Law School. In addition to practicing transactional law in a clinical setting, he practiced at Sidley Austin, with a focus on technology transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Michael is the co-author of two books on contracts from a transactional perspective: Contracts and Commercial Transactions and Contracts: A Transactional Approach, both published by Aspen.

Michael earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as a Teaching Fellow and helped launch a community development bank as part of the Community Development Financial Institutions Clinic. He earned his B.A. "with highest distinction" from the University of Michigan, where he studied American history and was a Dean's Merit Scholar and a member of the Bentley Society.

Christopher has spent his career specializing in application design, development, testing, and implementation across diverse platforms, code bases, and languages.

Before joining Praktio, Christopher worked as a Senior Frontend Software Developer at StarSevenSix and, prior to that, at Sedgwick Tech (formerly known as CareWorksTech). In both roles, he specialized in creating web and mobile applications tailored for a diverse range of B2B and B2C functions.

Christopher earned his M.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Web Development from Franklin University.

Before joining Praktio, Sean was a Senior Software Engineer at Bosch North America. As part of an agile team at Bosch, Sean worked on all sorts of projects, with a focus on developing financial and budgeting applications.

Prior to that, Sean was a Senior Software Engineer at Infor, where he was a member of the team responsible for building its enterprise resource planning solutions.

Sean earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Her experience spans all areas of marketing, with a specialization in product positioning and communication strategies.

Prior to joining Praktio, Michelle built out the marketing function at SoWork, developing data-driven frameworks to support customer research and communication. And before that, Michelle led marketing at Peach, a women’s athleisure brand (since acquired by Cabi).

Michelle also has over 10 years’ experience as a product and web designer.

Michelle earned her B.F.A. with a minor in Spanish Literature & Language, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design.