Grace Mitchell

Grace Mitchell is an associate at Chaiken Ghali LLP, where she focuses on business litigation, white collar defense, and government investigations. Ms. Mitchell earned her J.D. with honors from Emory University School of Law, where she served as Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal and received the Paul Bryan Prize in Constitutional Law. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Florida.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Mitchell was a litigation associate at a prominent Atlanta-based law firm, where she litigated business disputes in Georgia courts, including RICO and fraud-related matters. She previously spent two years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit where, as a staff attorney, she drafted proposed opinions and orders across roughly 136 appellate matters ranging from business disputes to white collar criminal cases.

EDUCATION

  • Emory University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 2023
    • Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal
  • University of Florida, B.A., 2017

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

  • Staff Attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2023-2025
  • Intern, Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Georgia, Trial Division, 2023
  • Intern, Office of the Public Defender, DeKalb County, 2022
  • Intern, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Hearings Unit, 2021