Michael B Cosentino
Michael B. Cosentino is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and of Clark University. Mr. Cosentino is chairperson of Seegel's litigation department concentrating his practice in civil litigation focusing on business litigation. Mr. Cosentino's civil litigation experience includes matters involving breach of contract, employment, unfair competition, business torts, business agreements, real estate and construction disputes, insurance coverage, D&O liability and fidelity law and securities law.
Mr. Cosentino has extensive experience in the financial services area representing both securities firms and financial advisors in individual and institutional customer disputes before FINRA. He has litigated and arbitrated a variety of legal issues arising from employment relationships, including wrongful termination claims and non-competition disputes.
Mr. Cosentino also represents executors, administrators, trustees, beneficiaries, and other individuals and entities in will contests, actions for breach of fiduciary duties, accountings and petitions for partition for real property.
Mr. Cosentino is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Massachusetts, New York, District of Columbia, and American Bar Associations.
While at Georgetown, Mr. Cosentino served as the Editor in Chief of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and he has authored Dwomoh v. Sava: Accepting and Applying the Correct Definition of a Refugee, published in The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Fall 1989.
Mr. Cosentino has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer 2004-2011.
Areas of Practice
- Litigation
- Financial Services Litigation
Litigation Percentage
- 80% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New York
- District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Massachusetts
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court District of Colorado
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia
- J.D. - 1990
- Law Journal: Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Editor in Chief
- Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
- B.A. - 1986
Published Works
- Dwomah v. Sava: Accepting and Applying the Correct Definition of a Refugee, The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Fall, 1989
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Member
