Mike was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania. Mike attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in political science. After Penn State, he moved onto law school at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, where he graduated cum laude. While obtaining his Juris Doctor, Mike interned for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, narcotics and asset/forfeiture divisions, worked towards a Master of Laws in Taxation, and obtained a certificate in International Law, studying abroad in the Australian and New Zealand legal systems.