Mitchell Driskell

Mitchell joined Tannehill Carmean after twenty two years in “big law firm” practice where he represented insurance companies, international corporations and governmental entities. He learned how big business and insurance companies plays the game, and now he is on the side of real people who need a lawyer to fight for them. Mitchell focuses 100% of his time now helping individuals and small, mom-and-pop, businesses. An Eagle Scout, Mitchell strives to practice the oath he learned early in life – “On my honor, I will do my best to help other people at all times.” He joined Tannehill Carmean because the firm was built on helping the people of Ole Miss, Lafayette County and North Mississippi.

Mitchell practices in the firm’s civil, personal injury division representing people who have been injured. Most of these kinds of cases involve dealing with and negotiating with insurance companies, and, as a former insurance company lawyer, Mitchell knows how insurance companies think and how to best present your case to them. He is motivated by helping real people get the results they deserve. If your case needs to go to trial, Mitchell has tried cases all across North Mississippi and is AV Preeminent® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell, rated 10.0 Superb by AVVO, has been repeatedly listed in the U.S. News and World Reports list of Best Lawyers in Insurance Litigation and is also a Mid-South Super Lawyer.

Mitchell also practices criminal law representing people accused of both misdemeanor and felony crimes. He has defended hundreds of Lafayette County citizens and Ole Miss students and has achieved dismissals of charges as serious as manslaughter, sexual assault, robbery and trafficking of controlled substances, as well as dismissals of DUI, public intoxication and other misdemeanors. He has repeatedly been nominated as one of the top 100 criminal defense lawyers in Mississippi. After over 22 years of practice in the courtrooms of Mississippi, Mitchell knows the decision-makers, has developed professional relationships across the state, and can counsel you on your best options to deal with your legal issues.

Mitchell takes family law cases for clients who put their family, especially children, first in all family disputes and refuses to represent clients who want to use their children as pawns in a legal game. He represents a number of small, family-owned businesses in day-to-day affairs. Mitchell is married to a lawyer, Brooke Newman Driskell, who has also been practicing law in Oxford for years. He has two active sons that keep him busy away from the office.

EDUCATION

1997 – 2000 University of Mississippi School of Law Oxford, MS

Juris Doctor, G.P.A. 3.4 (Class Rank 15/154)

• Augustus Longstreet Heiskell Scholar
• Mississippi Law Journal (1998-2000), Assistant Articles Editor (1999-2000)
• AmJur Award for Corporations and Civil Procedure

1993 – 1997 Baylor University Waco, TX

Bachelor of Business Administration, Emphasis in Economics, G.P.A. 3.59

• National Merit Scholar
• Freshman Leadership Organization, Golden Key National Honor Society

RECOGNITION AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale Hubbell
• Best Lawyers of America, Insurance – Litigation (2015 – 2020)
• Mississippi Business Journal, Top 40 Under 40 (2014)
• Ethics Committee, Mississippi Bar Association (2013-2016)
• SuperLawyer, Rising Star (2011-2013), Mid-South SuperLawyers
• Client Security Fund, Mississippi Bar Association (Member, 2018-2019; Chair, 2020-2022)
• Bench-Bar Liaison Committee, Mississippi Bar Association (2016-2017)
• Professionalism Committee, Mississippi Bar Association (2018-2020)
• Chairman, Mississippi Bar Association’s Summer School for Lawyers (2011, 2012, 2013)
• Northern District Chairman, MS Bar Disaster Relief Committee (2012)
• Inaugural class of Mississippi Bar Leadership Program (2011)
• Member, Mississippi Bar Child Advocacy Committee (2010)
• Past President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Lafayette County Bar Association
• Board of Directors, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association (2014-2017)
• Member, William C. Keady American Inn of Court
• Eagle Scout

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Title IX for Mississippi Lawyers, MDLA Quarterly, Fall 2021
• Getting to Know Gebser: Title IX Private Causes of Action, MDLA Quarterly, Summer 2016
• First Amendment Retaliation to Speech: The Threshold Issue, MDLA Quarterly, Fall 2018
• Defenses, Immunities and Liability in Civil Lawsuits Commonly Asserted Against Municipal Court Clerks, Mississippi Municipal Court Clerk Fall Conference, 2018
• What Everyone Should Know about the Mississippi Tort Claims Act, Mississippi Municipal League Summer Conference, 2014
• The Pro Se Civil Claim: The Fine Line Between the Leeway and Limits of Mississippi Law, MDLA Quarterly, Summer 2017
• The Manufacturing Defect Based on Circumstantial Evidence, MDLA Quarterly, Spring 2011
• Economic Damages: Caps, Categories and Calculations, Mississippi. Bar Summer School for Lawyers, 2011
• Insurance Agent’s Authority to Bind Insurers and Related Legal Consequences, Mississippi State Insurance Day 2011
• Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Termination of the Agency Relationship, Mississippi State Insurance Day 2012