Michael J. Gayan

Michael J. Gayan is a partner at Claggett & Sykes Law Firm and co-leads the firm’s mass torts and class action team. He has helped try cases to verdict and recovered more than $400 million for his clients, including In re: Kitec Fitting Litigation, the largest class action case ever tried in Nevada. Mike has litigated cases before state and federal trial courts in Nevada and throughout the country from California to Massachusetts as well as the Nevada Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Based on his successes, Mike has been recognized by Best Lawyers for his appellate work and commercial and construction litigation and by Super Lawyers for his work in class actions and mass torts as well as commercial and construction litigation. Since 2015, he has authored the Nevada section of the American Bar Association’s Survey of State Class Action Law. Mike is a member of Public Justice’s Class Action Preservation Project Committee. He also serves on the Nevada Justice Association’s Board of Governors and Amicus Curiae Committee.

Mike enjoys giving back to the community by litigating pro bono matters for those in need and has received several awards for the number of hours he has donated. His pro bono matters have ranged from representing foster children in family court to successfully litigating a construction defect matter on behalf of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to prosecuting and settling a class action on behalf of more than 10,000 Nevada payday loan customers.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Mike earned his undergraduate degree in business/finance from Brigham Young University in 2004 and graduated cum laude from the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2008. He is admitted in Nevada state and federal courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.