Michael Lonergan was graduated in 1976 from Yale College and in 1983 from Fordham University School of Law where he was a Commentary Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren W. Eginton, U.S. District Court Judge in Connecticut before joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as a litigation associate. In 1988 he became associated with and eventually a partner at the Albany, New York firm Bouck, Holloway, Kiernan & Casey. In 1995 he co-founded Allen Johnson & Lonergan and continued with that firm until 2007, when he joined his brother Jim’s established law practice.
He is a member of the bars of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Southern, Eastern and Northern District Courts of the federal District Courts in New York, and is a former Associate Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He has tried cases in over ¼ of New York’s sixty-two counties, practiced in ½ of them, and argued appeals in the New York Court of Appeals and Appellate Divisions and in the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Michael has lectured at CLE seminars on jury selection techniques and strategies and on the fundamentals of insurance contracts.
He is past chairman of the Empire State Regatta and is the current chairman of the Forest Park Annual Community Yard Sale in his hometown of Rhinebeck, New York. Each month he and his brother host at L&L’s offices a short story and a poetry reading group.
Always the student, with plans to teach courses in Latin and Rhetoric when he retires, Michael has earned one half the credits needed to secure his M.F.A. degree in English literature and creative writing at the University of the South (Sewanee).
When they are not tending to their ever-expanding organic fruit and vegetable garden, Michael and his wife Gwyneth retreat to the Jersey Shore throughout the year (yes, even in January and February!), kayak on the Hudson River and tent camp in the Adirondack mountains.