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

Comprehensive experience providing strategic business and legal solutions to position our clients for success.

Businesses throughout Arkansas and beyond rely on Mitchell Williams for innovative business and legal solutions to help manage the challenges that arise in today’s competitive business environment. Whether it is day-to-day management and strategic planning, securing financing through a bank, identifying the most effective tax structure, or raising capital through a private equity fund, our business and corporate lawyers have the experience needed to help companies succeed and grow.

Our 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 multimillion-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.

Protecting your intangible assets with copyright, trademark, patent and litigation support.

Many individuals - and all businesses - have intellectual property, including everything from names and brands to inventions and works of art. Too often, however, those assets go unprotected. Until it’s too late.

The Mitchell Williams Intellectual Property team helps emerging businesses, Fortune 100 companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, agriculture businesses, environmental businesses, transportation companies, hospitality businesses and marketing agencies develop, commercialize and strategically protect their intangible assets. Even better, we do it proactively saving clients significant time, trouble and expense.

Our practice includes a full-time patent attorney plus an integrated team with extensive experience offering intellectual property counsel, compliance counsel and enforcement legal services. We work closely with our firm’s investment, business, tax, data rights, regulatory and employment teams to offer our clients 360 degrees of support.

Providing comprehensive legal counsel in all phases of complex commercial real estate transactions. 

Real estate matters involve complex issues. At Mitchell Williams, our real estate attorneys serve as strategic advisors to help clients handle the broad range of legal issues that can arise in commercial real estate transactions.  

We represent clients in negotiating, documenting, financing, developing and closing real property transactions ranging from large commercial properties to individual residential dwellings. Whether working with individuals, public companies, privately held businesses, investors, developers, lenders,  municipalities, school districts and other governmental bodies, we work to achieve our clients’ objectives consistent with business demands.

Strategic counsel and in-depth knowledge of federal agency requirements, changing laws and fiduciary responsibilities to manage your HR needs. 

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.

Our employment team represents clients in the multitude of issues faced by HR managers and in-house counsel.  We represent sole proprietors, closely held family businesses, small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities, public schools, school districts, institutions of higher education, agriculture companies, hospitals, medical clinics, manufacturers, trade associations, churches and other nonprofit organizations.

Providing efficient strategies and practical solutions to achieve the best outcome for clients facing insolvency or dealing with financially-distressed parties.

When a debt restructuring, workout, bankruptcy, receivership, foreclosure, distressed asset transaction or other insolvency-related matter arises, it is vital to have a legal partner that knows what to expect. With experience representing the interests of debtors, creditors and interested third parties, our bankruptcy and debtor-creditor relations attorneys have years of experience advising clients in a broad range of bankruptcy, reorganization and debt restructuring matters including transactions, related litigation and appeals.

Leveraging knowledge from both sides enhances our ability to identify risks and provide practical solutions to help clients with the challenges they face. We represent debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, bankruptcy trustees, bondholders and other parties whose interests are affected when a business or individual files or considers filing bankruptcy.  When complex insolvency issues intersect with regulatory, tax, public finance, securities, agriculture and other specialized areas of law, our debtor-creditor attorneys can draw on the unparalleled subject-matter expertise of a full-service firm to provide comprehensive representation.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. is a full-service law firm with Arkansas roots and national reach. For more than 70 years, we have delivered sophisticated legal counsel to individuals, entities and corporations for everything from day-to-day business needs to the most complex, specialized corporate matters. From offices in Little Rock, Rogers and Jonesboro, Arkansas and Austin, Texas, we leverage the power of our experience for our valued clients.