Mitchell Orpett

Biography

Mitch is a founding member of Tribler Orpett & Meyer, P.C., in Chicago, which was formed in 1984. His practice is devoted to the defense of professional and general liability claims and to the resolution of insurance and reinsurance disputes. He has represented lawyers and other professionals in various courts across the United States and has been active in litigation, arbitration and other methods of alternative dispute resolution where he has served as both advocate and arbitrator. He has been listed in all editions of Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers and in Who’s Who Legal, Insurance & Reinsurance. He has also been named as an Illinois “Super Lawyer” and to the Illinois Network of Leading Lawyers in recognition of his achievements and professional standing. 
 
Mitch has devoted more than 35 years of service to the American Bar Association, holding numerous leadership positions and organizing and participating in numerous conferences. He recently completed his three-year term on the ABA’s Board of Governors and served for many years on its policy-making body, the House of Delegates. He was the chair of the ABA’s Section Officers Conference, where he represented the approximately 240,000 members of the sections of the American Bar Association. Previously, he served as chair of the ABA’s 30,000 member Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar. He was also vice chair of the ABA’s Presidential Commission on the Unintended Consequences of the Billable Hour (Justice Stephen G. Breyer, chair).
 
Mitch has also served as a member of various committees and task forces dealing with lawyers’ professional liability and cyber security. He has been a frequent author and speaker on cyber and professional liability topics here in the U.S. and abroad.
 
 

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: IL