Position: Associate

TEL: (260) 423-1500

FAX: (260) 458-8191

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Website: www.millermurphylaw.com

Admitted: 2005, Indiana

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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Medical Malpractice; Workers Compensation Defense; Legal Malpractice Defense; Premises Liability; Products Liability

Additional Information: Michael Barranda joined the law firm of Miller Murphy, LLP after having served as Law Clerk to The Honorable Stanley A. Levine and Daniel G. Heath of the Allen Superior Court in Fort Wayne. Michael is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame where he graduated, with honors, earning a Bachelors of Arts as a triple major in Economics, Sociology and Computer Applications in 2001. Michael earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2004 where he was awarded an Advocacy Certificate, and was one of four recipients of the school's Leadership and Service awards. A participant and coach of Loyola's Vis Moot Arbitration team, Michael participated in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. During law school, Michael worked for the City of Chicago - Department of Law, Building and Land Use Division, earning a 711 license and prosecuting the city's building code in Chicago's Department of Administrative Hearings and Circuit Court. Michael is a member and former Justice of Phi Alpha Delta, Young Republicans of Allen County, and is a Board Member of the Notre Dame Club of Ft. Wayne. He is a volunteer with the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre and Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant. Michael grew up in Kendallville, IN and currently resides in Fort Wayne with his wife, Lisa and his daughter, Christina. Allen County and Indiana State Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute; Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana; Benjamin Harrison Inns of Court. Phi Alpha Delta (Justice, 2003-2004). Participant, 2003 and Student-Coach, 2004, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court. Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Stanley A. Levine and the Hon. Daniel G. Heath, Allen Superior Court, 2004-2005. District Justice, 2007—.

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