Denis C. Mitchell focuses his practice on representing people injured by the improper conduct of hospitals, healthcare providers, trucking companies, pharmaceutical companies and others. Mr. Mitchell’s recent results include multiple seven figure recoveries in medical malpractice, product liability, trucking, motor vehicle, and premises liability cases both before and during trial.
Mr. Mitchell has been chosen to speak, write and hold leadership positions in multiple organizations relating to his field of practice, including
- Executive Committee and the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association;
- Chair of the D.C. Bar Tort Law Section (“tort law” primarily involves wrongdoing resulting in injury to persons);
- Multiple publications on issues relating to medical negligence and car/truck accident cases and a regular column regarding updates in the law relating to injury cases;
- Publications and Amicus Committees for the Maryland Association for Justice; Adjunct professor in trial advocacy at the Georgetown University Law Center.
He received his J.D. in 2000 from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he served as a Notes and Comments Editor of the Maryland Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. Mr. Mitchell is fluent in Spanish, having spent a year teaching and studying in the Economics Department (and playing collegiate basketball) at the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain.
Prior to joining Stein, Mitchell and Muse, he was a litigation associate at Piper Rudnick, LLP (now DLA Piper) in Baltimore, Maryland, where he litigated patent and trademark cases and commercial disputes.
He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
