Jim Mitchell
Partner | Payne Mitchell Ramsey Sanger, LLP
Jim Mitchell is a product liability, medical malpractice and general negligence trial lawyer and partner at Payne Mitchell Ramsey Sanger, LLP in Dallas, Texas. Admitted in Oklahoma and Arkansas; J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
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Jim Mitchell is a partner at Payne Mitchell Ramsey Sanger, LLP in Dallas. He represents clients in significant personal injury and wrongful death cases, including product liability, medical malpractice, general negligence, nursing home negligence and class actions. He is board certified in personal injury trial law.
Mitchell began his career at a large defense firm and has represented injured people since 1991. He joined Andy Payne in 2007. His firm biography says he has tried dozens of cases to jury verdict, including a $38 million verdict against General Motors in a side airbag case and a $36 million verdict against Honda in Sarah Milburn v. American Honda Motor Co. Inc., a defective seatbelt case that left his client a quadriplegic.
He is a past president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and of the Dallas Trial Lawyers Association, and he has chaired the Texas Trial Lawyers Association’s continuing legal education committee. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has been a Texas Super Lawyer every year since the list began in 2003.
Mitchell attended the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. He is also licensed in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- University of Texas at Austin
- Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D.
- Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law
- Licensed in Oklahoma
- Licensed in Arkansas
Practice Areas
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Past President; Fellow; Executive Committee; CLE Committee Chair)
- Dallas Trial Lawyers Association (Past President, 2015; Director, 1998-2014)
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Dallas Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters (2003-present)
- D Magazine Best Lawyers in Dallas (2011-present)
- The Best Lawyers in America (2016-present)
- $38 Million Verdict: Jury verdict against General Motors for failure of a Suburban's side airbags to deploy in a side-impact collision; the client suffered brain damage.
- $36 Million Verdict: Sarah Milburn v. American Honda Motor Company Inc., a defective roof-mounted retractable double-latch seatbelt case in which the client became a quadriplegic.
- Confidential Settlement: Case against a neurosurgeon who operated on the wrong level of a patient's spine, resulting in permanent disability.
- Confidential Settlement: Fifth case Mitchell settled involving a quadriplegic injury from a defective helmet in a sporting event.
- Confidential Settlement: Product liability suit against General Motors for a family whose seat belt buckles unlatched in a rollover, ejecting three of four occupants.
- Significant Settlement: Wrongful death and personal injury case, with Todd Ramsey, involving a defective minivan whose brake transmission shift interlock had been disabled when a GPS device was installed.
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