Bill Mitchell is a founding partner of Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP. Over the past 30 years, Bill has developed a reputation as a nationally recognized, aggressive, and creative trial lawyer and negotiator who handles complicated and high-dollar matters, from complex catastrophic injury cases to sophisticated EPL and professional E/O matters. Bill has a reputation with clients for “resolving the unresolvable,” and has become national counsel and monitoring counsel for several carriers in high-exposure cases.

Bill is a leader on litigation management, consults with carriers and selfinsureds nationwide, and co-authored the groundbreaking books, The Disruptive Lawyer’s Little Black Book of Litigation Management and The Disruptive Lawyer’s Little Black Book of Negotiation. Bill lectures and
consults regularly on negotiation strategies and techniques and has developed an industry-leading continuing education seminar series, The Masters of Negotiation.

Bill has been involved in many of the most high-profile cases in Georgia, including representing football player Ray Lewis in the civil cases arising out of the Buckhead Murders, the captain of courthouse security in the multiple civil cases arising out of the Fulton County Courthouse shooting, and the Kathryn Johnston civil rights wrongful death case.