Mike Eber defends state and federal criminal cases, with a concentration in financial crime and healthcare fraud.
Eight years for the State
Mike was an assistant district attorney in Harris County from April 2018 to September 2026, handling cases from DWI through organized crime to murder, and trying more than ten of them to a jury.
That is a particular kind of knowledge, and it is not the same as having read about it. He knows which cases a prosecutor is told to try and which the office would rather resolve, what a grand jury presentation looks like from the inside, and how charging decisions get made before anyone outside the building hears about them. He uses it to work out early what the government in a given case is likely to do.
Healthcare, from the regulatory side
Before the courthouse Mike spent most of a decade in and around healthcare regulation. He analyzed health legislation for the Texas House Public Health and County Affairs Committees during the 83rd session, including the Medicaid 1115 waiver and ACA Medicaid expansion. He practiced at Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend in 2014, ran his own practice advising on healthcare transactions, and served two years as a regulatory compliance manager at BakerRipley.
He holds a master’s in public health alongside his law degree. In a healthcare-fraud case that is not a line on a resume. The dispute is usually about billing data, coding, and what the records will support, and he has sat on the compliance side of those documents rather than meeting them for the first time in discovery.
How he works
Mike takes the view that criminal defense is what keeps constitutional protections from being theoretical. In practice that means pairing hard advocacy with the judgment to know when a negotiated outcome is the better result — a distinction that is easier to draw after years on the side making the offers.
Education and admissions
Mike earned his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center and an M.P.H. in healthcare management from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, and taught English at a senior high school in Gifu, Japan, on the JET Programme before law school.
He is licensed in Texas and admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.