Karl Michael Tilleman (born November 1, 1960) is former Canadian basketball player, two-time Olympian and currently an attorney.

[12][13] Tilleman has been the managing partner at Steptoe & Johnson's Phoenix office,[14] is currently a partner at the Dentons law firm[15] (the largest law firm in the world)[16] and has represented many high-profile clients including the Harlem Globetrotters, the University of Southern California, Western Union, State Farm, AIG, and Metlife, Inc.[12] In his volunteer service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Tilleman has served as a bishop and stake president in Phoenix, Arizona, as mission president of the Canada Vancouver Mission,[14] and as and Area Seventy in the Church's North America Southwest Area.

[23] Tilleman's 10 points at 45% shooting helped Canada win to eventually compete for the bronze medal.

[3] After interrupting his basketball career to serve a mission for his church, Tilleman continued to represent Canada from 1986 through the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.

[27] On September 23, 1988, Tilleman made ten (10) three-point field goals against Spain for a total of 37 points.

[28] Tilleman's performance against Spain in 1988 set the record of most three-point field goals made in a single Olympic game.

[1] This record has not been broken, but has been tied twice, notably by the all-time leader in Olympic scoring, Oscar Schmidt.

[45] This was a talented US team coached by Mike Krzyzewski and led by future NBA All-Stars B. J. Armstrong and Mitch Richmond.

[7] This was one of the finest moments in Canadian basketball history, being the only time in which Canada has won the gold medal in an international basketball tournament[46] Tilleman was drafted in the fourth round of the 1984 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets as the 79th overall pick.

[7] Tilleman is the fourth highest NBA draft pick in history among Canadian University basketball players.

[11] In 1986 while playing for the semi-pro team the Calgary 88's, Tilleman scored 50 points against the Montana State Bobcats and made thirteen three-point field goals in doing so.

[4] This set the record for the most points scored by a single player in a game on Montana State's Worthington Arena.

[56] After graduating from the University of Calgary, Tilleman studied at the Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School, eventually graduating summa cum laude ("with highest distinction"), Order of the Coif in 1990 while also serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the BYU Law Review.

[57] No other Canadian Olympian has also been selected as a law clerk by a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

[13][60] His practice at Steptoe, and now at Dentons, focuses on litigating antitrust, intellectual property, RICO, complex contract, and high-profile insurance disputes.

In a non-exclusive list, he was the lead trial lawyer for the Harlem Globetrotters in an intellectual property action filed in federal court by former Globetrotter superstars Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, and others; Tilleman represented the University of Southern California in a multi-million antitrust and RICO lawsuit; he has represented Western Union in various financial transaction cases, as well as State Farm, Allstate, AIG, and Metlife in numerous high-profile insurance cases.

[62] In between his Olympic performances, Tilleman served as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the California Arcadia Mission, speaking Spanish and working in Latino neighborhoods throughout the Los Angeles area.

[63] While serving as a mission president, Tilleman suffered a devastating fall after being attacked by a bull mastiff dog, which left him paralyzed from the neck down because of the trauma, including a tear in the center of his spinal cord.

[62] He fought to overcome that paralyzing and potentially life-threatening injury to complete his three-year term as a mission president and then continue his practice of law with Steptoe & Johnson.