Michael Ortwein is Assistant General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at GM. Before joining GM, Michael served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in both the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Eastern District of Michigan, and in private practice with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohen in Detroit, Michigan. Michael began his legal career clerking for a Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and subsequently for the Honorable Richard J. Leon, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Michael is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts.