Elizabeth Mitchell has built her career in the place most lawyers avoid: the courtroom. More than fifty trials, on both sides of the docket in state and federal courts and arbitrations—and a record of verdicts and settlements that multinational companies and individuals alike have staked their futures on.

Her practice centers on complex, high-stakes civil litigation—constitutional and civil rights, commercial disputes, trade secrets, and False Claims Act cases. She has represented multinational corporations, Fortune 100 companies, and their executives in hard-fought, high-exposure litigation, repeatedly delivering favorable verdicts and settlements that have saved her clients hundreds of millions of dollars.

Elizabeth is also the architect of one of the most consequential public-interest cases in recent California history. She conceived and led a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the City and County of Los Angeles, demanding beds, services, and treatment for thousands of unhoused residents and clean, safe streets for the community. The case forced emergency action by the federal court during the COVID-19 crisis and produced a landmark $4 billion commitment for 20,000 additional beds. For that work she received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award and has been called “one of the major authorities in the nation on homelessness law.”

Before private practice, Elizabeth tried high-exposure civil rights, excessive force, and wrongful death cases for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office Police Litigation Unit. Earlier, as a deputy in the high-volume Central Trials Division, she prosecuted violent and sexual crimes and trained new prosecutors.