Discussing Princeton With John Mitchell

If you’re looking for the best of both worlds — the reputation and resources of a large international firm with the close-knit environment of a smaller office — Princeton is the place to be. We sat down with Office Leader John Mitchell to talk about the collaborative spirit that drives high-quality legal work in this historic community. 

 
“The first time I visited the city of Princeton and the downtown area, I was taken aback by its beauty,” John remarked. “It was an absolutely astonishing place to just walk around, get a cup of coffee, and take in the scenery of what is probably one of the oldest communities in the history of the United States.”

John describes the culture in the Princeton office as a close-knit group of family-oriented people working together toward a goal of doing outstanding legal work. Many of our colleagues, including John, have been in the Princeton office for decades. The team’s open-door policy encourages collaboration and camaraderie.

While we support matters of all kinds in our Princeton office, the practice areas most highly represented include the private client group — which serves the wills, trusts and estates needs for individuals and trusts — as well as our real estate practice, which handles sophisticated legal work for local and national developers and lenders. Our Princeton team also includes attorneys that focus on complex litigation, environmental, financial services and labor and employment. 

“Faegre Drinker has a lot to offer to prospective hires,” John added. “We are uniquely positioned in that we are in near minutes from downtown Princeton and a very small, close-knit office. Yet we have all the trappings of a large law firm with offices nationwide, a client base that expands throughout the continental United States and abroad with sophisticated legal work and sophisticated clients — but with a hometown feel.”

Serving our communities is a core value at Faegre Drinker, and our Princeton office is no exception. We’re a community partner of Habitat for Humanity, both in the office and on the build site. “We do legal work for them in connection with property acquisitions and property developments,” John explained. “We also engage office team builds where members of our office go out to the habitat properties and assist in building properties that are then donated to member families that are part of the habitat organization.”

John said change is inevitable when you spend a couple of decades in the same office, but “what has not changed, really, is the family-focused nature of the interactions with all the different people within the office, as well as the quality legal work that we're doing here.”

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