Practice Areas

Financial Institutions
Professional Liability
Commercial Disputes
Banking Law

Education

Alabama State University, B.S.,
cum laude, 1978

Howard University School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1981

Bar and Court Admission

State Bar of Georgia

The Florida Bar

United States District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia

United States District Court for the
Middle District of Florida

United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Professional Associations and Recognitions

American Bar Association
Member, Board of Governors,
1996-98
Member, House of Delegates,
1996-98

Section of Dispute Resolution
Council member, 1999-
Chair, Section of Dispute Resolution, 2005-06
Chair-Elect, 2004-05
Vice-Chair, 2003-04
Budget Officer, 2001-03

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundry Specialists
Editorial Board

Community

Consumer Credit Counseling of Greater Atlanta
Member, Board of Directors

Past Professional
Presentations include:

Corporate Counsel Law Section,
State Bar of Georgia, “Corporate Compliance Programs,” December 1, 2007, Atlanta, GA.

Global Knowledge Congress, “The USA PATRIOT Act & Anti-Money Laundering,” June 20, 2006, teleconference.

American  Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution Annual ADR Conference, “Dispute Resolution and the Client, When It’s a Tool, When It’s a Yoke,” April 4, 2006, Atlanta, GA.

Experience

Robyn Mitchell has over twenty-five years combined legal, regulatory and operational risk experience. Her areas of expertise include financial institutions, professional liability, and commercial dispute resolution. Her substantive law and regulatory experience includes the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, FACTA, Regulation E, banking deposits, and lending.

Ms. Mitchell’s career combines years of professional experience working as in-house counsel, outside counsel, corporate compliance risk manager and executive, and in government legal service. Her career includes service as Director of Regulatory Risk & Compliance Management for RBS WorldPay, service as Assistant General Counsel for Bank of America and its predecessor institutions, including Barnett Banks, Inc., and service as a compliance risk executive for Bank of America. In addition to years in private practice, Ms. Mitchell is a former Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, and a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  

Ms. Mitchell is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and is a Six Sigma Certified Green Belt in process improvement and design.