Michael Raeber

Mike Raeber serves as the University of Georgia’s General Counsel, having served since February 2014. As General Counsel, Raeber is the University’s chief legal counsel with overall supervision of the University’s legal matters. He also serves as General Counsel for the University of Georgia Athletic Association and is a member of the University Cabinet.

Before coming to UGA, Raeber was a partner in the Business Litigation Group at King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he worked for twenty years. He served as lead counsel in cases involving real estate, insurance recovery, employment, accounting, and other business disputes. Before joining King & Spalding, he served as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr.

In 2009-2010, Raeber served as lead pro bono counsel to a wrongly convicted prisoner, obtaining habeas corpus and securing the client’s release from prison after serving seventeen years of a life sentence. (B. Rankin, Pen pal gets inmate freed, with help from lawyer son, Atl. Journal-Constitution, Aug. 29, 2010, at A1.)

Raeber is a 1993 cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was published in the Georgia Law Review and later served as Editor-in-Chief. He holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Sewanee: The University of the South, where he was a four-year letterman and all-conference basketball player.

From 2009-2014, Raeber served on the Board of Directors of KIPP Metro Atlanta, a non-profit charter school network consisting of eight public schools in Atlanta. Raeber continues to serve on the Advisory Board of the Truancy Intervention Project Georgia, for which he served as a Director for almost twenty years.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Extra Special People and Athens Academy.