Mike's most recent published article entitled "A Consumer's Recovery of Damages for Lost Personal Time: Has the G.M. Ignition Switch Litigation Ignited a Paradigm Shift"? appears in the St. Thomas Journal of Complex Litigation. The link to that article is: https://www.stu.edu/law/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/MichaelPinsof-AConsumersRecoveryofDamagesforLostPersonalTime.pdf Mike introduced that piece at the 2019 Central States Law Schools Association ("CSLSA") Scholarship Conference at the University of Toledo College of Law, and virtually presented a condensed version virtually at the International Consumer Law Conference hosted by the University of Pretoria, South Africa. As an Invitee to the International Association of Consumer Law Conference held at IUPUI College of Law in Spring, 2019, Mike presented a piece entitled "I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Singing Out the Need for Uniform Statutory Reform in the U.S." Mike presented an earlier draft of that paper at the CSLSA 2018 Scholarship Conference at Texas A&M University Collage of Law. Mike currently teaches, and has since 1998 taught as an adjunct instructor in the Lawyer's Assistant Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he develops curriculum and has taught courses in Labor and Employment Law, Pretrial Litigation, and Real Estate Law. His legal teaching career spans four decades, as he began developing curriculum and teaching for the American Institute for Paralegal Studies in 1983.
Mike's publication entitled "A Cautionary Guidebook for Withstanding Borrowers' Claims for Bad Faith in Declaring an Insecurity Default" appears in Volume 71, Page 35, of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, and can be accessed at the following link: http://www.ccflonline.org/members/download.cfm?fileName=article-71-1-2-612.pdf&pdfType=articles&articleID=612&issueID=23. Mike recently presented his scholarship at the CSLSA 2017 Scholarship Conference at Southern Illinois University College of Law; and at the University of Kentucky College of Law, which hosted the bi-annual Developing Ideas Conference, where he presented his new work-in-progress entitled "Remedies for the Insured's Breach of a Cooperation Clause: Sheath the Insurer's Shield to Survive on its Sword?". Mike's scholarship entitled "An Insurer's Duty to Make 'Reasonable Inquiry': Proposing a Strategy for Exploiting Deficient Responses to Requests for Admission", has been published in the 2017 edition (Volume 4 at page 158) of the Stetson Journal of Advocacy and the Law. Here is the link to that article: https://www2.stetson.edu/advocacy-journal/an-insurers-duty-of-reasonable-inquiry-a-strategy-for-exploiting-deficient-responses-to-requests-for-admission/. He presented a working draft of that work at the 2016 CSLSA Scholarship Conference at the University of North Dakota Collage of Law.
Mike presented an original work at the Second Annual Junior Legal Writing Scholars Workshop hosted by Washburn University Law School in Topeka, Kansas in July, 2015. That scholarship, entitled "Deconstructing the Silos of Legal Education: A Roadmap for Implementing Experiential and Integrative Pedagogy into the LRW Classroom", was published in the Fall, 2015 edition (Volume 22, no. 1) of The Law Teacher, and can be accessed at http://lawteaching.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lawteacher2015fall.pdf. Mike presented variations of that work at the Central States Law School Association 2015 Scholarship Conference hosted by the University of Toledo College of Law, and at the 2015 Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop hosted by the College of Law at Washington University-St. Louis.
Mike's scholarship entitled "Declaration of an Insecurity Default as an Opportunistic Exploitation of Changing Economic Conditions: Toward a Pragmatic Framework for Analyzing a Lender's Good Faith", appears in the fall, 2015 edition of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report. Mike presented a version of that piece at the 9th Annual International Conference on Contracts hosted by St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens Florida, in February, 2014.
Mike authored "Ethical Dilemma for Non-Physician Medical Care Providers: Directly Advise and Advocate for the Patient or Keep Your Job?; Reconciling Judicial and Legislative Attempts to Articulate a 'Public Policy' ", which was published in Volume 14, No. 2, page 203, of the 2010-2011 edition of the Quinnipiac Health Law Journal.
Early in his career, Mike co-authored "Diverting the Course of Colorado River: A Reconciliation of Seventh Circuit Adaptations", which was published in Volume 17 of the John Marshall Law Review, page 49, Winter, 1984
Mike's publication entitled "A Cautionary Guidebook for Withstanding Borrowers' Claims for Bad Faith in Declaring an Insecurity Default" appears in Volume 71, Page 35, of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report, and can be accessed at the following link: http://www.ccflonline.org/members/download.cfm?fileName=article-71-1-2-612.pdf&pdfType=articles&articleID=612&issueID=23. Mike recently presented his scholarship at the CSLSA 2017 Scholarship Conference at Southern Illinois University College of Law; and at the University of Kentucky College of Law, which hosted the bi-annual Developing Ideas Conference, where he presented his new work-in-progress entitled "Remedies for the Insured's Breach of a Cooperation Clause: Sheath the Insurer's Shield to Survive on its Sword?". Mike's scholarship entitled "An Insurer's Duty to Make 'Reasonable Inquiry': Proposing a Strategy for Exploiting Deficient Responses to Requests for Admission", has been published in the 2017 edition (Volume 4 at page 158) of the Stetson Journal of Advocacy and the Law. Here is the link to that article: https://www2.stetson.edu/advocacy-journal/an-insurers-duty-of-reasonable-inquiry-a-strategy-for-exploiting-deficient-responses-to-requests-for-admission/. He presented a working draft of that work at the 2016 CSLSA Scholarship Conference at the University of North Dakota Collage of Law.
Mike presented an original work at the Second Annual Junior Legal Writing Scholars Workshop hosted by Washburn University Law School in Topeka, Kansas in July, 2015. That scholarship, entitled "Deconstructing the Silos of Legal Education: A Roadmap for Implementing Experiential and Integrative Pedagogy into the LRW Classroom", was published in the Fall, 2015 edition (Volume 22, no. 1) of The Law Teacher, and can be accessed at http://lawteaching.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/lawteacher2015fall.pdf. Mike presented variations of that work at the Central States Law School Association 2015 Scholarship Conference hosted by the University of Toledo College of Law, and at the 2015 Legal Writing Institute One-Day Workshop hosted by the College of Law at Washington University-St. Louis.
Mike's scholarship entitled "Declaration of an Insecurity Default as an Opportunistic Exploitation of Changing Economic Conditions: Toward a Pragmatic Framework for Analyzing a Lender's Good Faith", appears in the fall, 2015 edition of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report. Mike presented a version of that piece at the 9th Annual International Conference on Contracts hosted by St. Thomas University College of Law in Miami Gardens Florida, in February, 2014.
Mike authored "Ethical Dilemma for Non-Physician Medical Care Providers: Directly Advise and Advocate for the Patient or Keep Your Job?; Reconciling Judicial and Legislative Attempts to Articulate a 'Public Policy' ", which was published in Volume 14, No. 2, page 203, of the 2010-2011 edition of the Quinnipiac Health Law Journal.
Early in his career, Mike co-authored "Diverting the Course of Colorado River: A Reconciliation of Seventh Circuit Adaptations", which was published in Volume 17 of the John Marshall Law Review, page 49, Winter, 1984
