Biography
Jeff Mitchell is a San Francisco based-medical malpractice attorney at Mitchell Leeds LLP. He currently handles cases in California, Arizona and Washington state. He is annually listed by his peers in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Top Attorneys in San Francisco and many other peer reviewed listings. He has won the San Francisco trial lawyers association trial lawyer of the year award and has been a finalist several other times. He has also been a finalist for the consumer attorneys of California consumer attorney of the year award on multiple occasions. He has obtained the two largest medical malpractice verdicts in California history and holds record verdicts in three California counties: Fresno, Santa Clara and Shasta. He has tried to verdict and resolved approximately 500 million dollars for his malpractice clients. He is a highly sought after speaker throughout the country.
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Meet Jeffrey S. Mitchell
From Jeff’s interview for the Masters of the Courtroom series on ReelLawyers.com.
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to being successful in a courtroom
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trying lengthy complicated trials is
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relatability
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and being yourself being authentic I
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think juries can kind of ferret out
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lawyers that are kind of playing a part
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so to speak
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as opposed to being real and human and
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authentic and I’ve just felt over the
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years in all the cases I’ve tried that’s
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the thing I try to never waver from
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essentially it’s just be yourself
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I’ve always been a little bit of a
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showman by like I like people I like
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being in front of people I’ve always
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liked kind of thinking on my feet
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using intuition I’m kind of an intuitive
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person by Nature being in a courtroom in
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front of people trying these cases those
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are really important attributes and I
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felt like I’ve always kind of had that
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and I think you know I don’t come from
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an educated family
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so I can kind of read people and read a
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room you know my parents are high school
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dropouts you know I’m the first person
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in my family to go to college
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I’ve never come very far from where I
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came so to speak I’m still the same
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person from the same background that
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I’ve always been I think that’s helped
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me try cases
