Law Offices of Kevin E. Mitchell      (415) 581-0885

EDUCATION

Golden Gate Univ., School of Law
San Francisco, CA
Doctor of Jurisprudence, 2007

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
B.A., Legal Studies, 2000

Bishop O'Dowd H.S., Oakland

Willard Jr. High, Berkeley

Malcolm X Elementary, Berkeley

EXPERIENCE

Mr. Mitchell started his career as an attorney as a Deputy Public Defender in and for the County of San Joaquin. He moved on to hold the same title in the City and County of San Francisco. In those positions, he was responsible for a very high volume caseload, which stretched his time and resources thin, but accelerated his acquisition of professional experience.

He reviewed and investigatied thousands of incidents, noticing patterns in police reporting practices and in their testimony at hearings. Working and speaking with his colleagues who also managed high volume caseloads exposed him to even more experience, vicariously.

He gained a keen understanding of how to read a case and determine, early on, what the end result would likely be. He learned that skill mattered a great deal in setting his client's minds at ease.

Instilling confidence in his clients, Mr. Mitchell has taken over 40 jury trials to verdict. Many clients were scared to take the risk, but later explained that while they waited at each court date and watched all the attorneys in the courtroom, they were impressed with his charming courtroom demeanor.

Mr. Mitchell has successfully challenged unlawful police searches, seizures, detentions and arrests, thereby suppressing incriminating evidence and eviscerating cases at the preliminary stages.

Mr. Mitchell has cross-examined police regarding their arrest reports in over 100 preliminary hearings. He has examined countless civilian men, women and children about the circumstances surrounding their observations and accusations.

He excels in the realm of litigation because he anticipates and dispels the arguments made by the other side and employs strategies that assist the jury to discover why they should vote in his clients' favor.

He endeavors to undermine humiliating accusations and to obtain favorable plea deals to lesser charges in situations where a trial is not in his client's best interest.

Mr. Mitchell exhibits the same tenacity fighting for victims of personal injury, wrongful death and Civil Rights violations. When life, liberty, property or the pursuit of happiness is at stake, Kevin Mitchell goes the distance and the extra mile to advocate for his clients.

Mr. Mitchell has been working in law offices since 2003, but he might tell you he was mixed up in the law much earlier than that. He continues to improve himself through academic and hands-on instruction to keep current on new trends and developments in the law.

PERSONAL

While still adjusting to college life, Kevin Mitchell was confronted by an event that most people cannot even begin to imagine: at the beginning of his sophomore year, Kevin’s cousin, to whom he was as emotionally close as a brother, was arrested for murder, tried, and convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

This crisis lasted almost two years, all but absorbing Kevin’s undergraduate career.  Watching the process unfold with his family, attending daily his cousin’s trial, the inconsistencies and inaccuracies that Kevin observed were of such magnitude that he declared his undergraduate major as Legal Studies, and began to pursue a legal career.  

Kevin Mitchell has come to the law not out of a sense of ambition, but out of necessity and due to a sense of purpose.

Legal analysis can be taught and tested, research skills learned and refined, and procedural details memorized and repeated. But the skills that are essential to the integrity of the law—such as dogged determination to preserve the ideals of due process, individual liberty, and institutional fairness on behalf of strangers—these “skills” cannot be inculcated, they must be allowed to emerge.

Kevin possesses an aptitude for justice that will be of tremendous benefit to any case or controversy in which he is a part.



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