Managing Partner
Mitchell’s litigation experience spans a wide variety of industries, including investment and commercial banking, private equity, venture capital, technology, healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, manufacturing, entertainment, hospitality, and fashion. Clients include top tier Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments and dignitaries, investment banks, hedge funds, entertainment industry, high net-worth individuals, and medical research and other charitable organizations.
Mitchell has extensive experience representing employers and senior executives in both public and private companies in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including disputes over executive contracts and compensation, restrictive covenant litigation, wrongful termination, unfair competition, and trade secrets. His trial experience extends across many state and federal forums and arbitration venues before FINRA.
Due to Mitchell’s in-depth knowledge and experience in all aspects of employment law and his ability to adapt to clients’ unique business needs, clients also look to him for assistance in developing strategies aimed at reducing legal exposure. He also counsels clients with respect to internal investigations and compliance with anti-harassment and discrimination laws.
Mitchell also has substantial experience counseling clients on bankruptcy litigation, creditor’s rights, corporate reorganization issues and the insolvency law aspects of corporate transactions. He has advised financial institutions, creditors and troubled companies in out-of-court debt restructuring, and represents post-petition lenders, as well as parties involved in the acquisition of assets from Chapter 11 companies, and the buying and selling of the debt of such companies.
Education:
- Boston University School of Law J.D., 1982 – 1985
- Rutgers University B.A., Political Science and Government, 1978 – 1982
Publications And Presentations:
- “Federal Agencies Focusing on AI Bias in Consumer Lending,” MeidasTouch, May 3, 2020
- “AI Leads the Attack on Covid-19, but at What Ethical Price?” MeidasTouch, April 5, 2020
- Contributor, “The Halcyon Principles for Connected Intelligent Technologies,” Halcyon House, January 28, 2020
- Participant, Halcyon Dialogue, “Emerging Legal, Legislative, and Liability Issues at the Intersection of Robotics and Policy,” Co-sponsored by Halcyon and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, June, 27, 2017
- History, Culture and Politics in Latin America, Fox School of Business, Temple University, February 12, 2015
- Electronic Communications and Devices: Whose Email, Phone and Tablet is it Anyway? Westchester-Southern Connecticut | Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), CLE
- Adding Insult to Injury: Preferential Transfer Actions in Bankruptcy—A Practical Preference Primer, Aspatore Books, March 7, 2014