Michelle M. Sekowski, Counsel

Michelle Sekowski is counsel in Herrick's Litigation Department, where she concentrates her practice on complex commercial and real estate litigation. At Herrick, Michelle has foreclosed hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial real estate for banks, hedge funds and servicers of securitized debt. She has also litigated a broad range of other matters in federal and state courts, including contract, real estate, product liability, consumer fraud, employment and estate disputes.
 
Prior to joining Herrick, Michelle was an associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where she focused on complex commercial litigation and served on the trial team that successfully defended a prominent investment bank in a $13 billion matter. She began her career at Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, where she was a member of the Litigation Department and the Employment Law Practice Group.
 
In her spare time, Michelle serves as President-Elect of the Junior League of Monmouth County, a 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to advancing women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training. In 2023, Michelle was the recipient of the League’s "Outstanding Leaguer" Award, which is presented annually to a member who has given extraordinary and continuous service to the League and to her community over a period of years. Michelle recently completed a four-year term on the Supreme Court of New Jersey's Advisory Committee on Outside Activities of Judiciary Employees, and she has served as an Adjunct Professor of Electronic Discovery at Rutgers Law School in Newark. She is also on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and a volunteer for the Greater New Jersey Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which previously honored her as one of New Jersey’s "Finest Young Professionals."