Michael A. Berenson practices in the areas of general business law and business and employment litigation. He graduated cum laude from the Tulane University School of Law in 1990, where he was a managing editor of the Tulane Law Review. He received the Rufus Harris Award in Torts and the Morrison Law Review Award for the best law review comment during 1990. He also holds bachelor=s and master=s degrees in mechanical engineering from Tulane University, where he was inducted into two honorary societies recognizing technical excellence. He is a member of the Tulane Law Review Board of Advisory Editors. He is a co-author of Federal Regulation of Real Estate and Mortgage Lending, in which he writes regularly on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act, and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. In addition, he has extensive business experience and, for 16 years, was president of Quanta Data Systems, a computer services company that provided a broad range of commercial computer services to businesses and professionals throughout the South. He is a former president of Touro Synagogue, the Jewish Community Center of New Orleans, and a past chairman of the regional board of the Anti-Defamation League. He is Chair of the Governing Board of Touro Infirmary.

Mr. Berenson is a member of the Louisiana, Colorado, American and Federal Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in the states of Louisiana and Colorado.