Mr. Michael M. Raeber

University of Georgia

Mike Raeber serves as General Counsel for the University of Georgia, having served since February 2014. As General Counsel, Raeber has 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 almost 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 clerked for Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Raeber is a 1993 cum laude graduate of the UGA School of Law, where he was published in the Georgia Law Review and 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. 

For almost 20 years, Raeber served on the Board of the Truancy Intervention Project Georgia, and from 2009-2014, Raeber served on the Board of Directors of KIPP Metro Atlanta, a non-profit charter school network.  In Athens, he served four years on the Board of Directors of Extra Special People, a non-profit serving children with disabilities, and he currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Athens Academy.