Michele Fried Raphael is a partner of Wolf Popper LLP. She specializes in consumer fraud class actions and securities class actions. She has recently represented classes of consumers in actions against eight title insurance companies and Toys "R" Us, Inc. The action against the title insurers, In re Coordinated Title Insurance Litig., resulted in the largest consumer settlement in Nassau County. The presiding Justice commented that the lawyering in that case "was lawyering of the highest quality." In the Toys "R" Us action, the presiding Justice noted that Ms. Raphael "did an incredible job" and that "but for [her] tenacity and [her] focus, this [settlement] would not have been accomplished.

Ms. Raphael also actively represented plaintiff classes in actions against American Bankers Insurance Group, Inc. (defendant paid nationwide class members' insurance claims in full and revised its solicitations), First Consumers National Bank (defendant reimbursed credit cardholders nationwide for all fees they had paid which allegedly had been disclosed in impermissibly fine print), and Deutsche Bank A.G.(in a securities action arising from defendant's merger with Bankers Trust, the settlement recovered 96% of the class' most likely recovery). She is also involved in general commercial litigation and has represented Aeroflot Russian Airlines in a variety of matters.

Her reported decisions include Good v. American Pioneer Title Ins. Co., 2 A.D.3d 401, 783 N.Y.S.2d 841 (2d Dep't 2004); Spector v. Toys "R" Us, Inc., 12 A.D.3d 358, 784 N.Y.S.2d 153 (2d Dep't 2004); Sims v. First Consumers Nat'l Bank, 303 A.D.2d 288, 758 N.Y.S.2d 284 (1st Dep't 2003) and DiBenedetto v. Pan Am World Serv., 359 F.3d 627 (2d Cir. 2004).

Ms. Raphael received her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law. She was a member of the Hofstra Law Review, a student member of the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court and an intern for the Honorable Judge George C. Pratt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Prior to coming to Wolf Popper LLP, Ms. Raphael was an associate at Tenzer Greenblatt Fallon & Kaplan. She is admitted to the New York State Bar, the New Jersey State Bar, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is a member of the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court and the Nassau County Bar Association.