After graduating from the School of Law in May, Michael Nadler moves to Chicago where he will begin work with Sidley, Austin, Brown, & Wood, where he was a summer associate last year. Over the summer, Michael worked on a broad range of complex legal issues with the majority of his work in the areas of litigation and transactions.

Michael did not take the direct route into law school, or into undergraduate for that matter. After one semester, Michael left Lehigh University during his freshman year and moved to New York. "I just wasn't at a stage in my life when I wanted to be in school. After a few months in New York, I moved back to Miami and started bartending out on South Beach. I left Miami to work in the Caribbean for awhile and then I moved to Aspen where I spent four years skiing and pouring drinks."

Michael worked as a bartender for eight years before returning to college. In 2002 he received his bachelor's in English and economics from Columbia University. During college he served as the president of his freshman class and as president of the Undergraduate Student Council. He also worked for the New York Legal Aid Society and the Gore/Lieberman 2000 Presidential Campaign.

At UM Law, Michael is an editor for the University of Miami Law Review, a Dean's Fellow for Contracts and Constitutional Law, and a member of the Wrongful Convictions Project. He was also the winner of the moot court competition for first-year law students. After completing his first year, Michael was a judicial intern for a district court judge in Miami over the summer and last spring semester he was a judicial intern with the Florida Supreme Court. "I play tennis with one of my professors, I get together with another for beers, and I don't think I would have had these opportunities at another law school. I had some amazing professors at UM who really seemed to enjoy interacting with the students."