Faculty

Michael Murphy

Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer

Michael Murphy is the Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer in Law of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He teaches students how to provide transactional legal services to entrepreneurs, using a unique perspective based on his experience working as an attorney for a large law firm, a startup, and a publicly traded corporation.
 
Before joining Penn Law, Michael was an in-house attorney at SEI Investments Company, where he was responsible for the negotiation of outsourcing agreements for SEI’s technology platform. Continue reading… Michael Murphy is the Clinical Supervisor and Lecturer in Law of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He teaches students how to provide transactional legal services to entrepreneurs, using a unique perspective based on his experience working as an attorney for a large law firm, a startup, and a publicly traded corporation.
 
Before joining Penn Law, Michael was an in-house attorney at SEI Investments Company, where he was responsible for the negotiation of outsourcing agreements for SEI’s technology platform. He also created an Electronic Discovery course at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, which he taught as an Adjunct Professor. He regularly teaches continuing legal education courses to practicing attorneys about the intersection of technology and legal practice.
 
Previously, Michael was the General Counsel of BrainDo Interactive, originating the legal role at a startup digital marketing agency and serving in a business role as a content strategist. Michael was also a litigation and employment law attorney at Blank Rome LLP, and clerked at the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  
 
Michael received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to law school, he worked as an online content producer for Ford Motor Company and Rohm & Haas. He received a B.A. in Journalism, magna cum laude, from Oakland University.
 
Michael is a past recipient of Blank Rome LLP’s Pro Bono Hero Award in 2014 for work on behalf of senior citizens. He is also Co-Chair of “The Dude Hates Cancer,” Philadelphia’s finest (and only) annual charity bowling tournament benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, through which he has helped raise over $775,000 to fight blood cancers.
 
Michael can be seen around Philadelphia performing improvised comedy, and is an amateur storyteller, whose stories have been featured on the air at WHYY radio in Philadelphia and WNYC radio in New York.  A one act play he wrote will be produced in June 2019 by the Old Academy Players in East Falls, PA.  [Hide]

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