Attorney Michael Lin Baum serves as Senior Managing Partner of the law firm Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC. He brings over 25 years of legal experience to his law practice in which he works toward compensation and justice for clients filing personal injury or wrongful death claims stemming from defective prescription drugs and medical devices. Additionally, Michael Lin Baum represents class action representatives in pharmaceutical consumer fraud cases and has been involved with whistle-blower qui tam actions, assisting in the prosecution of private interests for fraudulent claims or failure to comply with government statutes.

After graduating from the UCLA School of Law with his Juris Doctor in 1985, he began his career as a lawyer overseeing cases of airline and rail disasters. Though he currently heads Baum Hedlund's pharmaceutical litigation department, he remains active in overseeing the firm's transportation safety cases. He was part of the team that successfully elicited an unprecedented public apology from the president of an airline for the 2003 loss of Air Midwest flight 5481.

As a consumer fraud attorney, Baum takes pride in his ability to find incriminating details amidst the massive amounts of data that pharmaceutical litigation can produce. He has achieved the highest preeminent lawyer rating through Martindale-Hubbell.