Kiana A. Mitchell
MemberKiana maintains a civil defense practice with a concentration in the areas of worker's compensation, medical malpractice, and vehicular negligence. Kiana attended Wake Forest University as a recipient of the Joseph B. Gordon full academic scholarship, graduating with a B.A. in English. She returned home to New Orleans to attend Loyola University School of Law on a full scholarship, receiving her Juris Doctorate and Certificate in Civil Law and Common Law in May, 2001. While in law school Kiana was a member of the National Trial Team, student prosecutor with the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, and regional representative to the National Black Law Students Association. Kiana began her legal career as an associate with Blue Williams, L.L.P after a judicial clerkship in Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. In 2005 Kiana joined Mitchell & Associates, APLC, to establish and manage the workers' compensation practice group.
Kiana is the past-Chair and a current member of the Louisiana State Bar Association Minority Involvement Section and is also a member of the Workers Compensation Committee of Defense Research Institute, the Louisiana State Bar Association and the New Orleans Bar Association. In 2009, she received the Certified Workers' Compensation Professional (CWCP) designation from the Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers, a non-profit organization exclusively devoted to issues impacting workers' compensation from an employer's perspective. She has served on several governmental, community, and non-profit organization boards throughout her legal career.
Real Life Experience
There are several characteristics necessary to become a successful attorney that cannot be replicated through law school curriculum. One such characteristic is familiarity with your venue. Another is the ability to relate to people from all walks of life. A native New Orleanian, Kiana knows the region and its surrounding communities very well. As the granddaughter a former department head of the City of New Orleans and the daughter of a former City Attorney, Kiana has learned the invaluable worth of building and maintaining relationships, hard work, effective communication and uncompromising ethics. As a local business owner and employer, she understands the dual necessity of legal counsel to not only obtain successful results in the courtroom, but to also lay out a focused strategy that gives rise to the most efficient resolution at the outset of every case.
Affiliations
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- New Orleans Bar Association
- National Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated