Michael Grinthal

Staff Attorney  (Housing)

Michael Grinthal is a staff attorney and Skadden Fellow in the Housing Unit of South Brooklyn Legal Services. Before coming to SBLS in September of 2007, Michael was a law clerk to Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2006, and received an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government that year. While in law school, he worked as Co-Chair of Harvard’s Tenant Advocacy Project, providing legal representation to public housing tenants. Prior to law school, Michael worked for six years as a community and tenant organizer in Boston, Hartford, Providence, and Houston. In 2006, he received a two-year Skadden Fellowship to fund his work at SBLS with tenants and community organizations.