Michael Rubin is an Assistant General Counsel in NJ Transit’s Office of the General Counsel, representing the third largest public transportation agency in the United States in a wide variety of practice areas. Prior to this, he practiced civil law and commercial litigation for nearly twenty-five years in New Jersey’s Attorney General’s Office. He also served as NJ Transit’s first Employee Court Advocate, a civilian position within the NJ Transit Police Department that provides advocacy and court services for operational employees who are victims of on-the-job assault. Mike is on the faculty of the National Attorney General Training & Resources Institute and New Jersey’s Attorney General Advocacy Institute, both of which provide training in civil practice and trial advocacy to government lawyers. Mike also teaches a graduate course entitled “Law, Ethics and the Business Environment” at Strayer University. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law and began his legal career as a law clerk for a Presiding Judge in New Jersey’s Appellate Division.