Michael Sylvester

Michael Sylvester serves as Litigation Counsel for the Founding Freedoms Law Center, where he focuses on advancing legal matters through the judicial process to protect clients’ religious liberties and other fundamental freedoms.

Before taking this role, Michael was an attorney for a medical malpractice defense law firm in Northern Virginia. There, he defended physicians, nurses, and healthcare facilities in high-stakes, factually-complex civil litigation and litigated matters on appeal.  Michael is admitted to practice before all Virginia's state courts, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States

Michael obtained his bachelor of arts degrees in prelaw and in history from Pensacola Christian College in 2014, and he obtained his law degree from Regent University School of Law in 2019. During law school, he interned in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and was a law clerk for the United States Attorney's Office, in Norfolk, Virginia. He also served as an articles editor for the Regent University Law Review and was a member of the first-place team for the 2018 National Pretrial Competition held in Gulf Port, Florida.