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Michael H. Leibacher

“We Stand Up For You®, so you can Stand Up for those you love."

- Christopher H. Roberts

Bio

Michael is a Personal Injury attorney at the Greensboro, North Carolina CR Legal Team office.

From a young age, he has had a passion for strengthening his community and Standing Up for those without a voice. Michael is local from the area, being born and raised out of Asheboro, but spending much of his adolescence with his mother in Greensboro.

After graduating from Southwestern Randolph High School, he continued his education at East Carolina University. During that time, he also traveled abroad to London and Amsterdam, to study social policies, their reasoning, and effectiveness. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a minor in Philosophy. He received his Juris Doctor from the Charleston School of Law in South Carolina and completed 50 hours of pro bono work to provide legal aid to clients who otherwise, would not have had legal representation. While in South Carolina, he spent three years working as a local trash man and waiter to help with the expenses of law school, and was a member of the Entertainment, Art and Sports Law Society.

He and his fiancé Brittany have a daughter, Blakeleigh, and he enjoys going fishing, hiking, camping, and spending time with them. He has a passion for the fitness industry and mixed martial arts and enjoys lifting weights or going for a run in his free time.

Education

  • East Carolina University. B.S.
  • Charleston School of Law, Juris Doctorate

Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina State Bar

Education

Bar Admissions
and Memberships

  • North Carolina State Bar

The Personal Injury Lawyers

Who'd Rather You Never Need Them

Kimberly and I met in 1992 as kindred spirits, both drawn to the idea of building something larger than ourselves—an extension of our family committed to serving others. We married in 1994, while I was practicing law, and Kimberly worked in healthcare consulting. We thought we understood how the legal system worked. Then September 19, 1995 changed everything.

It’s the worst possible situation to be in after a serious injury. I’m sitting across from a guy who’s supposed to be one of the better traumatic brain injury lawyers, but I’m realizing he doesn’t understand what Kimberly and I are going through!

I got hit by a tractor-trailer just two months before. My wife Kimberly—nineteen weeks pregnant with our first child—has had to watch me deal with personality changes, possible lifelong symptoms, and terrifying fears of our family's future.

What makes it all worse is the fact that I am a lawyer with years of experience, and yet even I can’t get the kind of representation we desperately need. It’s a scary situation.

I grew up in Charlotte. My mother was a teacher, my father a manager working with blue-collar contractors. My parents instilled in me a simple principle: stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves. Becoming an Eagle Scout reinforced it.

Kimberly grew up in Rockingham, a small North Carolina community. Her parents, a nurse and a salesman, also instilled the importance of community service. Sunday mornings singing in youth prison ministry, working with rehabilitation centers, partnering with local organizations – all part of Kimberly’s youth and what shaped her heart.

My brain injury accident showed us that even being on the inside of the legal profession didn’t protect us from getting poor representation. Our lawyer didn’t really serve us well because he couldn’t put himself in our shoes.

After my personal injury, I knew exactly what kind of lawyer I wanted to be:

someone who truly understands what clients are going through because I've been there myself. Kimberly joined me, bringing her healthcare background and passion for wellness. We built our practice around a simple idea—we don't just handle your case, we understand your whole journey, and we prepare you for it.

Today we’ve been in business for 35 years and we’ve recovered billions of dollars for our clients, but more importantly, we’ve advanced our services to what we call “whole person legal care.” We don’t just fight for financial recovery—we address the physical, emotional, and mental needs that make up a whole person. We prepare people before accidents happen through safety education. We stand beside them during their recovery. And we help them figure out where to go when their time with us is done.

What drives us is knowing that if you know better, you have to do better. Through our Roberts Center, we give away thousands of bicycle helmets, teach CPR, provide scholarships, and run safety programs in schools because we’d rather prevent accidents happening to your family than litigate them.