Michelle Kerin

For more than 25 years, Michelle Holman Kerin has distinguished herself as an experienced and formidable litigator, trying numerous cases to verdict before juries and arbitrators and handling complex motion practice. She is ranked in “Band 1” by Chambers & Partners for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (2026) and has been named an Oregon Super Lawyer since 2024.

Michelle handles a broad range of high-stakes matters for corporations and individuals, including complex civil litigation, internal corporate investigations involving allegations of fraud, criminal conduct, or financial or governance malfeasance, and government civil and criminal investigations. Michelle is frequently called upon to guide clients through parallel civil and criminal proceedings and the complex strategic issues they present.

For the 12 years prior to joining Angeli & Calfo, Michelle served as an Assistant United States Attorney and as the Deputy Chief of the Economic, National Security and Cyber Crime Unit, where she directed federal prosecutors, staff, and law enforcement and was designated one of the District's Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) prosecutors. In her time at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she prosecuted and supervised some of the largest and most complex white-collar cases in the District of Oregon, directing multi-district investigations involving money laundering; securities, bank, wire, investment, bankruptcy, tax, and mortgage fraud; Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations; and cyber, national security, and environmental crimes.

Michelle was also a shareholder at Farleigh Wada & Witt, a regional law firm, where she represented businesses, executives, and financial institutions in complex civil business litigation. She also represented special litigation committees in internal corporate investigations and federal receivers in civil enforcement actions brought by agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

Michelle served as an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark Law School for more than ten years and as faculty at the National Advocacy Center, the Department of Justice’s national training center.