Taft Cleveland partner John R. Mitchell was recently interviewed on the podcast, Next Witness…Please, hosted by WOUB Public Media. In the episode, “Behind the Briefcase: How America’s Top Lawyers Defend Corporations and Their Employees,” Mitchell highlights the complexities of navigating white-collar defense matters and discusses the necessary skills for defending such cases.

To listen to the full episode, visit here.

Mitchell is a partner in Taft’s Compliance, Investigations, and White Collar Defense and Commercial Litigation practices. An experienced first-chair trial lawyer, he has defended companies and individuals in criminal, administrative, and civil trials in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Mitchell is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, whose membership is restricted to the top one percent of trial lawyers in each state, as unanimously recognized by their peers. He is also recognized in Chambers USA (Band 1) in the Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations category.