Michael L. Spekter (In Memoriam)

Biography

Michael Spekter was of counsel to Gilbert Employment Law and specialized in representing federal employees in employment and retirement related matters. He practiced extensively before the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as both the local and federal Courts of the District of Columbia and Maryland, and especially at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he was responsible for a number of federal seminal retirement cases which protect the rights of part time federal employees.

He graduated from Villanova University, Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Honors Program, and received his Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he was a dean’s list student.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Spekter was one of the original senior prosecuting attorneys for the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, and litigated numerous seminal federal whistleblower retaliation and Hatch Act cases in the federal government. He has also successfully litigated numerous D.C. whistleblower cases.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Spekter was an adjunct professor at both the University of Baltimore School of Law and American University Washington College of Law where he taught courses on Law Practice Management. He also coaches the ABA employment law moot court team from The University of Baltimore Law School.

He was also an active member of the Law Practice Division of the American Bar Association, where he held a position on the Leadership Council, and as an associate editor to Law Practice, the magazine of the Law Practice Division, where he was a regular contributor.

Mr. Spekter began his legal career in Arizona as a Pima County Public Defender, in Tucson, Arizona. He was a member of the bars of Arizona, Maryland and the District of Columbia, the companion federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.