Attorney Michael Leff Case Study

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Attorney Michael Leff has joined the law firm of prominent Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney David Drexler, as an Associate, and will specialize in legal research, brief writing and pretrial litigation support.

A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Leff was raised in the San Fernando Valley and attended Campbell Hall School before graduating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, concentrating his study in Communications and History.

“You can’t study history in any depth without becoming hyper aware of matters of justice and injustice in our culture,” says Leff, now a Los Angeles personal injury attorney, seated in his new Sharman Oaks law office. After three months studying abroad in

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