Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C

Arkansas, United States

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. is a distinguished full-service law firm, proudly rooted in Arkansas with national reach. For more than 70 years, the firm has delivered sophisticated legal counsel to corporations, entities and individuals on business matters and transactions, litigation and complex corporate issues. With strategically located offices in Little Rock, Rogers, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, as well as Austin, Texas, Mitchell Williams blends strategy with experience to provide exceptional client service.

The firm is home to an experienced team of lawyers who excel as advocates and partners, guiding clients to success in today's competitive business landscape. The attorneys leverage their extensive knowledge, experience and broad business connections to offer invaluable insights and expertise. Mitchell Williams is ranked by Chambers USA in the areas of corporate/commercial, environment, labor and employment, litigation, public finance, real estate and insurance regulatory.  

At Mitchell Williams, the client relationship is paramount. The firm prides itself on working collaboratively with clients as trusted advisors, ensuring their interests are always placed at the forefront of every matter. This steadfast dedication to client relationships forms the foundation of the firm's enduring success. For more information visit MitchellWilliamsLaw.com.

Practice Areas

We have extensive experience in the following practices areas.

• Administrative Law
• Adoption
• Agriculture
• Alcohol Permitting and Regulation
• Appellate
• Bank Regulatory
• Banking and Finance
• Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor Relations
• Business and Corporate Law
• Capital Markets and Securities
• Captive Insurance
• Class Action Defense
• Commercial Litigation
• Construction Law
• Construction Litigation
• Education
• Employment and Labor
• Environment and Natural Resources
• Executive Compensation
• Government Relations
• Health Care
• Health Care Litigation
• Information Privacy, Security and Data Rights
• Insurance Defense and Coverage
• Insurance Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Managed Care
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Municipal and Public Finance
• Patents
• Petroleum Marketing
• Products Liability and Mass Tort
• Professional and Medical Liability Defense
• Public Utilities and Renewable Energy
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Litigation
• Tax Controversy and Litigation
• Tax Law
• Toxic Tort and Environmental Litigation
• Transportation Defense
• Trust, Estate and Fiduciary Litigation
• Wealth Planning, Trusts and Estates

Highlighted Practices

Business & Corporate Law

The Mitchell Williams business and corporate lawyers represent a wide range of local, regional and national clients at all stages of their development – from startups to mature businesses to multi-million dollar national corporations. Our team often works with clients in the role of general outside counsel providing effective legal support on all aspects of planning, structuring, negotiating and executing a variety of corporate transactions. We maintain a strong and focused local and regional practice which allows us to assist our clients with building relationships through our extensive contacts in the region’s business and regulatory community. Our goal on every matter is to drive value to our clients and deliver outstanding service.

Employment and Labor

Our team of employment attorneys is committed to finding practical solutions to HR issues that help our clients succeed in today's complex business environment. Effective representation of clients begins with prevention and we are proactive in helping employers avoid regulatory violations and claims. We work to issue spot and to resolve problems before they can occur. When disputes do arise, we vigorously pursue our clients’ interests in the courtroom or through arbitration, mediation and other creative methods of dispute resolution.

Environment & Natural Resources

The Mitchell Williams team of environment and natural resources lawyers have been on the fore-front of emerging environmental issues for decades. Top ranked by Chambers USA, our environment and natural resources practice is backed with years of experience and extensive relationships to work with clients as advocates and partners to help anticipate challenges and resolve issues that can impede operations or stand in the way of successfully completing a project. Our team’s collective experience covers all major environmental arenas including water and wetlands, air quality, solid and hazardous waste management, regulated storage tanks, toxic substances, mining and reclamation, superfund, toxic tort, natural resources, and conservation and preservation.

Informaiton Privacy, Security & Data Rights

Businesses, organizations and governmental entities of all sizes, across all industries, face privacy and security risk arising from the data they collect and use – which is why so many depend on the information privacy, security and data rights team at Mitchell Williams for their data privacy, security compliance and risk-response needs. We combine extensive experience and business knowledge to help clients comply with regulatory and legal requirements, both domestically and internationally, and mitigate risk before, during and after an incident. How? By understanding data collection, transfer and usage practices. Knowing the legal impact and regulatory weight placed on business operations. And providing legal strategies that bring data handling practices into regulatory compliance, at the lowest possible organizational burden. Our experienced team includes Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) attorneys, holding both United States and European privacy certifications and a former attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Insurance Regulatory

Top ranked by Chambers USA, the Mitchell Williams insurance regulatory practice combines a sophisticated team of lawyers with extensive experience in handling transactions and regulatory issues for insurance industry clients in all 50 states and D.C. Because of our depth of experience and breadth in national relationships, our team understands the complex business of insurance and helps clients navigate the consistent industry challenges emerging from increasing regulations, market consolidations, technology innovations, data privacy and new competition. We represent the largest life and property-casualty insurers in the industry, having decades of experience handling numerous complex domestic and cross-border transactions. We advise domestic and global insurance companies, private equity funds and investment banks on mergers and acquisitions, loss portfolio transfers and other acquisition and disposition transactions structured as reinsurance.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our mergers and acquisitions lawyers have extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers of all sizes, including both privately held entities and public companies, in deals across a multitude of industries. We consistently handle many of the largest transactions in the State of Arkansas and assist our clients with transactions across North America. Our M&A team of attorneys understands that successful transactions take meticulous attention to detail. We guide transactions from a letter of intent and initial structuring through due diligence, negotiation, documentation and closing.  We routinely work with sellers to prepare their companies for the selling process and work with buyers not only through the closing but through post-closing integration and other post-closing matters.   We understand market trends, local markets and industry-specific issues, all of which contribute to each step in the process. And, we drive value to our clients by drawing from the sophisticated resources across our firm to provide securities, tax, employment, intellectual property, regulatory and litigation knowledge needed to provide comprehensive service for client transactions.