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Mitchell W. Berger founded Berger Singerman in 1985, serves as Chairman of the firm, and has practiced with every practice group in the Firm. He is resident in the Fort Lauderdale office.
Mitchell has been active in public affairs at the national, state and local levels. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association from March 1994 to July 2001 and, in 1998, he was appointed to serve as the Chairman of the Board by President Clinton. In addition, Mitchell has served on numerous boards and commissions, including as a Commissioner on the Florida Environmental Commission, a member of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a member of the United States Small Business Agency Advisory Board, and a member of the Governing Board of the South Florida Water Management District. While on the South Florida Water Management District Board, he served as the Chair of their Audit Committee, was a member of the Broward County Water Advisory Board, a member of the Governor’s Commission for a Sustainable South Florida, serving as Co-Chair of the Natural Resources Subcommittee in 2000, and a member of the Florida Keys Advisory Board. Mitchell was Co-Chair of the Community Relations Committee for the Summit of the Americas in Miami, Florida in 1994. He served as Counsel to the Broward Community Health Purchasing Alliance (CHPA). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Nova Southeastern University since 2006, and serves on the Board of Governors of Nova’s School of Business and Entrepreneurship since 1991 and Nova’s Shepard Broad Law Center since 2002. Mitchell is also a member of the Board of Visitors of Temple University School of Law since 2001, and since 2006 as an Alumni Associate Member of the Trustee Committee on Development and Alumni Affairs for Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. He has served on The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Florida since 2001. He was named Chairman of the Fundraising Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 2008 Miami Host Committee and named a Trustee of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society in Tallahassee (2008).
Mitchell was a member of President Clinton’s Transition Team, for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, in 1992 and 1993. He was Senior Advisor to the Gore 2000 Campaign.
Mitchell is active throughout the United States in complex commercial litigation. He has represented AT&T, The Adler Group, AOL Time Warner, Waste Management, Rinker Materials, Mastec, Econolodges of America, The Broadstone Group, Related Companies, Bank Espirito Santo International, Ltd., McGladrey & Pullen, Terranova, Valley Drug Company and Corrections Corporation of America. Additionally, Mitchell represented Vice President Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman in the post-2000 election Florida lawsuits in Bush v. Gore.
Mitchell has received numerous awards, including being named as a Co-Lawyer of the Year from the National Law Journal in 2000 and the Excellence Award from the South Florida Water Management District in 2001. While Mitchell served on the board of the South Florida Water Management District, the Board and the Agency received the Environmental Merit Award 2000 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 4, for appreciation and recognition of outstanding environmental stewardship. He has received the Humanitarian Tree of Life Award from the City of Hope. Mitchell is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Florida Super Lawyers complied by the publishers of Law & Politics Magazine, Florida Trend Magazine’s Florida Legal Elite, South Florida Legal Guide’s Top Lawyers in South Florida and was named one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Broward County by Gold Coast Magazine. Mitchell was named one of the top 10 Lawyers of the Decade by the South Florida Legal Guide (2010) and was named 2010 Entrepreneur the Year by Nova Southeastern University's Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Mitchell was a Distinguished Lecturer at Nova Southeastern School of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2000, a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University’s Presidential Leadership class in 2003 and a guest lecturer at Washington University in 2007.
Mitchell graduated from Lafayette College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude (1977), where he was a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, The International Economics Honor Society. He received his law degree from Temple University Law School in 1980, where he was a member of the Law Quarterly. Mitchell served as a Clerk to Alan C. Sundberg, then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida (1980).
Mitchell is a member of the Florida Bar, the Tennessee, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations and the Bankruptcy Bar Association. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals (6th and 11th Circuits), the United States District Court (Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Florida, Northern District of Florida, Eastern District of Tennessee, and District of New Jersey), the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Tax Court, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, and all state courts in Florida, New Jersey and Tennessee.
Mitchell’s publications include Presidential Elections – The Right to Vote and Access to the Ballot (Nova Law Review); Class Action Certification (National Law Journal); Election 2000: The Law of Tied Presidential Elections (Nova Law Review); and Freight Railroads: Too Little Too Late For a Deteriorating Industry? (The Jurist).
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